Open AccessObese Adolescents Show Reduced Cognitive Processing Speed Compared with Healthy Weight Peers
Author(s) -
Victoria Sweat,
Karen E. Yates,
Renee Migliaccio,
Antonio Convit
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
childhood obesity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.913
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 2153-2176
pISSN - 2153-2168
DOI - 10.1089/chi.2016.0255
Subject(s) - neurocognitive , cognition , medicine , obesity , percentile , corpus callosum , frontal lobe , executive functions , audiology , childhood obesity , psychology , psychiatry , overweight , pathology , statistics , mathematics
Childhood obesity and obesity-associated diabetes and metabolic syndrome (MetS) continue to rise. Obesity has been linked to structural and functional brain abnormalities, particularly in the frontal lobe.
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