Binge Eating (BE) and Obesity: Brain Activity and Psychological Measures before and after Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB).

Brain activity in response to food cues following Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass (RYGB) in binge eating (BE) or non-binge eating (NB) individuals is understudied. Here, 15 RYGB (8 BE; 7 NB) and 13 no treatment (NT) (7 BE; 6 NB) women with obesity underwent fMRI imaging while viewing high and low energy density food (HEF and LEF, respectively) and non-food (NF) visual cues. A region of interest (ROI) analysis compared BE participants to NB participants in those undergoing RYGB surgery pre-surgery and 4 months post.

Illness intrusiveness: A key part of the cognition-mood link in multiple sclerosis.

Purpose: The current study attempted to expand the literature on cognition and mood in MS by determining if illness intrusiveness may potentially serve as an intermediary factor in the well-established cognition-mood relationship in people with MS.

Method: This study employed a retrospective cross-sectional design to answer this question. Baseline neuropsychological test data and mood questionnaires from 199 participants with clinically definite MS were used in this study.

Relationship Between Age and Weight Loss in Noom: Quasi-Experimental Study.

Background: The prevalence of obesity and diabetes among middle-aged and older adults is on the rise, and with an increase in the world population of adults aged 60 years and older, the demand for health interventions across age groups is growing. Noom is an mHealth behavior change lifestyle intervention that provides users with tracking features for food and exercise logging and weighing-in as well as access to a virtual 1:1 behavior change coach, support group, and daily curriculum that includes diet-, exercise-, and psychology-based content. Limited research has observed the effect of age on a mobile health (mHealth) lifestyle intervention.

Triggers of Lapse and Relapse of Diet and Exercise in Behavioral Weight Loss.

Objective: This study aimed to (1) develop instruments to evaluate situations that lead to lapse and relapse in diet and exercise and (2) prospectively investigate when and which psychosocial situations predict failure to lose weight in a clinical trial of intentional weight loss.

Methods: Participants were 469 individuals with overweight or obesity participating in a behavioral weight loss program (age: mean = 53.6 years, SD = 11.

Examining Food Addiction and Acculturation Among a Hispanic Bariatric Surgery-Seeking Participant Group.

Objective: This study examined food addiction (FA) and acculturation among a Hispanic bariatric surgery-seeking sample.

Setting: University hospital.

Method: Four hundred forty-four (n = 215 English-speaking; n = 229 Spanish-speaking) Hispanic adults seeking bariatric surgery completed established self-report measures examining food addiction and acculturation.