Human cognitive function and the obesogenic environment

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2000 • 13,955 citations

Inhibition and the right inferior frontal cortex

2004 • 3,056 citations

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2011 • 2,502 citations

Inhibitory Processes in Attention, Memory and Language

1994 • 2,268 citations

Origins and evolution of the Western diet: health implications for the 21st century1,2

2005 • 2,251 citations

The Relations Among Inhibition and Interference Control Functions: A Latent-Variable Analysis.

2004 • 2,145 citations

The three-dimensional organization of the hippocampal formation: A review of anatomical data

1989 • 2,107 citations

On inhibition/disinhibition in developmental psychopathology: Views from cognitive and personality psychology and a working inhibition taxonomy.

2000 • 1,751 citations

Obesity is associated with hypothalamic injury in rodents and humans

2011 • 1,582 citations

The ecological validity of tests of executive function

1998 • 915 citations

Lower cognitive function in the presence of obesity and hypertension: the Framingham heart study

2003 • 677 citations

Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease

2010 • 674 citations

A review of the association between obesity and cognitive function across the lifespan: implications for novel approaches to prevention and treatment

2011 • 662 citations

Meta-Analysis of Alzheimer's Disease Risk with Obesity, Diabetes, and Related Disorders

2009 • 651 citations

Elevated body mass index is associated with executive dysfunction in otherwise healthy adults

2006 • 647 citations

Western diet consumption and cognitive impairment: Links to hippocampal dysfunction and obesity

2010 • 609 citations

A unified framework for inhibitory control

2011 • 606 citations

Obese women show greater delay discounting than healthy-weight women

2008 • 538 citations

Paradoxical effects of thought suppression: a meta-analysis of controlled studies

2001 • 535 citations

Obese adults have visual attention bias for food cue images: evidence for altered reward system function

2009 • 526 citations

Why obese children cannot resist food: The role of impulsivity

2005 • 517 citations

Body mass correlates inversely with inhibitory control in response to food among adolescent girls: An fMRI study

2010 • 498 citations

Bottomless Bowls: Why Visual Cues of Portion Size May Influence Intake^**

2005 • 484 citations

Insulin Resistance and Alzheimers Disease Pathogenesis: Potential Mechanisms and Implications for Treatment

2007 • 466 citations

Inhibitory processes and the control of memory retrieval

2002 • 424 citations

Differences in attention to food and food intake between overweight/obese and normal-weight females under conditions of hunger and satiety

2009 • 421 citations

Control yourself or just eat what you like? Weight gain over a year is predicted by an interactive effect of response inhibition and implicit preference for snack foods.

2010 • 381 citations

Obesity, diabetes and cognitive deficit: The Framingham Heart Study

2005 • 372 citations

Self-regulation and Rapid Weight Gain in Children From Age 3 to 12 Years

2009 • 371 citations

Impulsivity in obese women

2006 • 369 citations

A leaky blood–brain barrier, fibrinogen infiltration and microglial reactivity in inflamed Alzheimer’s disease brain

2008 • 351 citations

A comparison of the validity of three scales for the assessment of dietary restraint.

1989 • 329 citations

Disinhibited Eating in Obese Adolescents Is Associated With Orbitofrontal Volume Reductions and Executive Dysfunction

2011 • 329 citations

Neurogenesis and Alzheimer's disease: At the crossroads

2009 • 321 citations

The contribution of activated astrocytes to Aβ production: Implications for Alzheimer's disease pathogenesis

2011 • 316 citations

Training inhibitory control. A recipe for resisting sweet temptations

2010 • 315 citations

Fat intake at midlife and cognitive impairment later in life: a population‐based CAIDE study

2008 • 307 citations

A comparison of the validity of three scales for the assessment of dietary restraint.

1989 • 300 citations

Impulsivity predicts treatment outcome in obese children

2006 • 295 citations

Attentional biases in eating disorders: A meta-analytic review of Stroop performance

2004 • 282 citations

The Effects of a High-Energy Diet on Hippocampal Function and Blood-Brain Barrier Integrity in the Rat

2010 • 274 citations

Can(not) take my eyes off it: Attention bias for food in overweight participants.

2011 • 274 citations

Amyloid-Independent Mechanisms in Alzheimer's Disease Pathogenesis

2010 • 272 citations

Inhibitory functioning in Alzheimer’s disease

2004 • 270 citations

Selective attention and the inhibitory control of cognition

1995 • 266 citations

What Causes Humans to Begin and End a Meal? A Role for Memory for What Has Been Eaten, as Evidenced by a Study of Multiple Meal Eating in Amnesic Patients

1998 • 258 citations

Neurobehavioral Inhibition of Reward‐driven Feeding: Implications for Dieting and Obesity

2009 • 252 citations

Impulsivity and inhibitory control deficits are associated with unhealthy eating in young adults

2012 • 249 citations

Ability to Delay Gratification at Age 4 Years and Risk of Overweight at Age 11 Years

2009 • 237 citations

Systematic Review: Are Overweight and Obese Individuals Impaired on Behavioural Tasks of Executive Functioning?

2013 • 235 citations

The interaction between impulsivity and a varied food environment: its influence on food intake and overweight

2007 • 230 citations

The Relation of Adiposity to Cognitive Control and Scholastic Achievement in Preadolescent Children

2012 • 227 citations

The concept of inhibition in cognition.

2008 • 218 citations

A systematic review and meta-analysis of cognitive bias to food stimuli in people with disordered eating behaviour

2010 • 217 citations

High-intensity sweeteners and energy balance

2010 • 207 citations

Mechanisms of inhibition in long-term memory: A new taxonomy.

1994 • 199 citations

Interactive relations of central versus total obesity and blood pressure to cognitive function

2005 • 197 citations

Ghrelin Signaling in the Ventral Hippocampus Stimulates Learned and Motivational Aspects of Feeding via PI3K-Akt Signaling

2012 • 197 citations

Is there any relationship between obesity and mental flexibility in children?

2007 • 197 citations

Selective Alterations Within Executive Functions in Adolescents With Excess Weight

2010 • 193 citations

Memory processes in classical conditioning

2004 • 191 citations

fMRI reactivity on a delay discounting task predicts weight gain in obese women

2011 • 188 citations

Attentional and approach biases for pictorial food cues. Influence of external eating

2008 • 185 citations

Overcoming the urge to splurge: Influencing eating behavior by manipulating inhibitory control

2011 • 184 citations

The effects of a high-energy diet on hippocampal-dependent discrimination performance and blood–brain barrier integrity differ for diet-induced obese and diet-resistant rats

2012 • 184 citations

Television watching during lunch increases afternoon snack intake of young women

2008 • 180 citations

Memory inhibition and energy regulation

2005 • 176 citations

Different patterns of memory impairments accompany short- and longer-term maintenance on a high-energy diet.

2010 • 174 citations

Impact of diet on adult hippocampal neurogenesis

2009 • 174 citations

How Many Calories Are on Our Plate? Expected Fullness, Not Liking, Determines Meal‐size Selection

2009 • 173 citations

A potential role for the hippocampus in energy intake and body weight regulation

2007 • 168 citations

Memory for recent eating and its influence on subsequent food intake

2002 • 168 citations

Tight Junctions in Brain Barriers During Central Nervous System Inflammation

2011 • 162 citations

External eating, impulsivity and attentional bias to food cues

2011 • 161 citations

Differential functional magnetic resonance imaging response to food pictures in successful weight-loss maintainers relative to normal-weight and obese controls

2009 • 160 citations

Inducing impulsivity leads high and low restrained eaters into overeating, whereas current dieters stick to their diet

2009 • 160 citations

Cognitive deficits in obese persons with and without binge eating disorder. Investigation using a mental flexibility task

2011 • 159 citations

Inter-relationships among diet, obesity and hippocampal-dependent cognitive function

2013 • 157 citations

Food-related Stroop interference in obese and normal-weight individuals: Behavioral and electrophysiological indices

2010 • 156 citations

High-restrained eaters only overeat when they are also impulsive

2008 • 154 citations

Negative mood increases selective attention to food cues and subjective appetite

2009 • 152 citations

Long-term characterization of the diet-induced obese and diet-resistant rat model: a polygenetic rat model mimicking the human obesity syndrome

2010 • 149 citations

Cognitive influences on food intake: The effects of manipulating memory for recent eating

2008 • 147 citations

Measuring affective (liking) and non-affective (expected satiety) determinants of portion size and food reward

2008 • 147 citations

Impairment of inhibitory control in response to food-associated cues and attentional bias of obese participants and normal-weight controls

2011 • 146 citations

Evidence of executive dysfunction in extremely obese adolescents: a pilot study

2009 • 145 citations

Hippocampal Leptin Signaling Reduces Food Intake and Modulates Food-Related Memory Processing

2011 • 144 citations

Eating beyond metabolic need: how environmental cues influence feeding behavior

2013 • 141 citations

Anatomy of the Temporal Lobe

2012 • 140 citations

Inhibitory control of memory retrieval and motor processing associated with the right lateral prefrontal cortex: Evidence from deficits in individuals with ADHD

2010 • 137 citations

Obesity and Lowered Cognitive Performance in a Canadian First Nations Population

2009 • 136 citations

Which Memory System is Impaired First in Alzheimer's Disease?

2011 • 135 citations

Playing a computer game during lunch affects fullness, memory for lunch, and later snack intake

2010 • 135 citations

Deterioration of physical performance and cognitive function in rats with short‐term high‐fat feeding

2009 • 133 citations

Computer-based assessments of expected satiety predict behavioural measures of portion-size selection and food intake

2012 • 131 citations

Focusing on food during lunch enhances lunch memory and decreases later snack intake

2011 • 130 citations

Executive Cognitive Function as a Correlate and Predictor of Child Food Intake and Physical Activity

2010 • 128 citations

Impulsivity is associated with the disinhibition but not restraint factor from the Three Factor Eating Questionnaire

2007 • 128 citations

Cognitive Interference Due to Food Cues in Childhood Obesity

2003 • 126 citations

Delay of gratification in obese children

1983 • 122 citations

Episodic Memory and Appetite Regulation in Humans

2012 • 121 citations

The Negative Association of Childhood Obesity to Cognitive Control of Action Monitoring

2012 • 120 citations

Attentional bias modification encourages healthy eating

2013 • 115 citations

Information processing of food pictures in binge eating disorder

2010 • 110 citations

Cognitive Biases to Healthy and Unhealthy Food Words Predict Change in BMI

2010 • 105 citations

Recall of recent lunch and its effect on subsequent snack intake

2008 • 99 citations

Intake of High-Intensity Sweeteners Alters the Ability of Sweet Taste to Signal Caloric Consequences: Implications for the Learned Control of Energy and Body Weight Regulation

2011 • 98 citations

37 Years of Body Mass Index and Dementia: Observations from the Prospective Population Study of Women in Gothenburg, Sweden

2012 • 97 citations

Forebrain networks and the control of feeding by environmental learned cues

2013 • 97 citations

Learning and Memory Processes and Their Role in Eating: Implications for Limiting Food Intake in Overeaters

2012 • 88 citations

‘Expected satiety’ changes hunger and fullness in the inter-meal interval

2011 • 87 citations

An application of Pavlovian principles to the problems of obesity and cognitive decline

2013 • 85 citations

Snacking while watching TV impairs food recall and promotes food intake on a later TV free test meal

2010 • 85 citations

Effect of high-fat diet and antioxidants on hippocampal long-term potentiation in rats: An in vivo study

2013 • 84 citations

Enhanced processing of food-related pictures in female external eaters

2009 • 84 citations

Obesity, orbitofrontal structure and function are associated with food choice: a cross-sectional study

2011 • 81 citations

Disinhibition is easier learned than inhibition. The effects of (dis)inhibition training on food intake

2012 • 80 citations

Interference and Inhibition in Cognition

1995 • 78 citations

Hippocampal neurons inhibit meal onset

2012 • 78 citations

Cognitive function, vascular risk factors and education. A cross‐sectional study based on a cohort of 70‐year‐old men

1997 • 78 citations

The modern obesity epidemic, ancestral hunter-gatherers, and the sensory/reward control of food intake.

2012 • 76 citations

Restrained eating is related to accelerated reaction to high caloric foods and cardiac autonomic dysregulation

2011 • 75 citations

Childhood Obesity and Impulsivity: An Investigation With Performance-Based Measures

2009 • 75 citations

Cognitive Function and Overweight in Preschool Children

2009 • 74 citations

Effects of thought suppression on eating behaviour in restrained and non-restrained eaters

2010 • 72 citations

Selective processing of food and body size words: Application of the stroop test with obese restrained eaters, anorexics, and normals

1994 • 69 citations

Information processing of food cues in overweight and normal weight adolescents

2007 • 69 citations

Cognitive and neuronal systems underlying obesity

2012 • 68 citations

Dietary Patterns Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease: Population Based Study

2009 • 65 citations

Cognitive Interference From Food Cues in Weight Loss Maintainers, Normal Weight, and Obese Individuals

2010 • 64 citations

Conditioning and cognition

2004 • 64 citations

Restraint, disinhibition and food-related processing bias

2008 • 61 citations

The performance of obese and normal size children on a delay of gratification task

1978 • 58 citations

Functional differentiation within the medial temporal lobe in the rat

2004 • 58 citations

The effects of food-related attentional bias training on appetite and food intake

2013 • 54 citations

Top down modulation of attention to food cues via working memory

2012 • 51 citations

Early-Stage Inflammation and Experimental Therapy in Transgenic Models of the Alzheimer-Like Amyloid Pathology

2010 • 50 citations

Improvements in hippocampal-dependent memory and microglial infiltration with calorie restriction and gastric bypass surgery, but not with vertical sleeve gastrectomy

2013 • 44 citations

Increased familiarity with eating a food to fullness underlies increased expected satiety

2012 • 43 citations

Delay of gratification, locus of control, and eating patterns in obese and nonobese children

1981 • 39 citations

Motivational Effects of Hunger on Time Estimation and Delay of Gratification in Obese and Nonobese Boys

1976 • 38 citations

Eating Disorders in an Obesogenic Environment

2011 • 37 citations

Resisting temptation: Effects of exposure to a forbidden food on eating behaviour

2008 • 37 citations

Associations between inhibitory control and body weight in German primary school children

2013 • 36 citations

Effects of priming thoughts about control on anxiety and food intake as moderated by dietary restraint

2004 • 35 citations

Impulsivity in restrained eaters: Emotional and external eating are associated with attentional and motor impulsivity

2012 • 34 citations

‘The weight of a thought’: Food-related thought suppression in obese and normal-weight youngsters

2006 • 33 citations

Thought suppression in obese and non‐obese restrained eaters: piece of cake or forbidden fruit?

2006 • 29 citations

Comparing measures of cognitive bias relating to eating behaviour

2008 • 28 citations

Fat substitutes promote weight gain in rats consuming high-fat diets.

2011 • 27 citations

Alzheimer's - Looking beyond plaques

2011 • 20 citations

Performance of Obese Humans on Transfer of Training and Reaction Time Tests

1973 • 15 citations

Performance factors in associative learning: Assessment of the sometimes competing retrieval model

2012 • 4 citations