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Reward Region Responsivity Predicts Future Weight Gain and Moderating Effects of the TaqIA Allele.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 15 Jul 2015
Stice Eric, Burger Kyle S, Yokum Sonja
Abstract excerpt
Because no large prospective study has investigated neural vulnerability factors that predict future weight gain, we tested whether neural response to receipt and anticipated receipt of palatable food and monetary reward predicted body fat gain over a 3-year follow-up in healthy-weight adolescent humans and whether the TaqIA polymorphism moderates these relations. A total of 153 adolescents completed fMRI...
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