Choices of (in)action in obesity: Implications for research on treatment and prevention
The obesity epidemic has crossed social-demographic barriers and is a matter of significant concern. Why do individuals fail to restrain from eating high-calorie foods and fail to follow treatment routines that reduce the risk of health complications? These questions have been addressed through beha...
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| description | The obesity epidemic has crossed social-demographic barriers and is a matter of significant concern. Why do individuals fail to restrain from eating high-calorie foods and fail to follow treatment routines that reduce the risk of health complications? These questions have been addressed through behavioral and brain imaging studies on prefrontal cortex inhibitory mechanisms. Failure to inhibit undesirable behaviors has become a hallmark of obesity. In many life situations, obesity risk is increased by inaction (e.g., not taking blood pressure medication, not following a healthy diet). Risk by inaction has been defined as passive risk-taking, and it is correlated with traits such as procrastination, future time perspective, and cognitive avoidance. To the present, passive tendencies, specifically in the context of risk-taking behaviors, have not been addressed in the obesity literature. We introduce a framework in which active and passive risk-taking behaviors are integrated within the scope of bidirectional models of obesity that describe the brain as both the cause and the consequence of obesity vulnerability. The present perspective aims to foster new research on treatment and prevention, and also on the neurobiology of passive behaviors in obesity and other metabolic conditions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5b9efbc8ded54fa9905e878bc67331252022-12-22T03:30:44ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychiatry1664-06402022-10-011310.3389/fpsyt.2022.988495988495Choices of (in)action in obesity: Implications for research on treatment and preventionIsabel Arend0Michal Schnaider Beeri1Michal Schnaider Beeri2Kenneth Yuen3Kenneth Yuen4The Joseph Sagol Center for Neuroscience, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, IsraelThe Joseph Sagol Center for Neuroscience, Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, IsraelDepartment of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United StatesNeuroimaging Center (NIC), Focus Program Translational Neuroscience, Johannes Gutenberg University Medical Center, Mainz, GermanyLeibniz Institute for Resilience Research, Mainz, GermanyThe obesity epidemic has crossed social-demographic barriers and is a matter of significant concern. Why do individuals fail to restrain from eating high-calorie foods and fail to follow treatment routines that reduce the risk of health complications? These questions have been addressed through behavioral and brain imaging studies on prefrontal cortex inhibitory mechanisms. Failure to inhibit undesirable behaviors has become a hallmark of obesity. In many life situations, obesity risk is increased by inaction (e.g., not taking blood pressure medication, not following a healthy diet). Risk by inaction has been defined as passive risk-taking, and it is correlated with traits such as procrastination, future time perspective, and cognitive avoidance. To the present, passive tendencies, specifically in the context of risk-taking behaviors, have not been addressed in the obesity literature. We introduce a framework in which active and passive risk-taking behaviors are integrated within the scope of bidirectional models of obesity that describe the brain as both the cause and the consequence of obesity vulnerability. The present perspective aims to foster new research on treatment and prevention, and also on the neurobiology of passive behaviors in obesity and other metabolic conditions.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.988495/fullobesityrisk-takingpassive riskoverweightinhibitioninitiation |
| spellingShingle | Isabel Arend Michal Schnaider Beeri Michal Schnaider Beeri Kenneth Yuen Kenneth Yuen Choices of (in)action in obesity: Implications for research on treatment and prevention Frontiers in Psychiatry obesity risk-taking passive risk overweight inhibition initiation |
| title | Choices of (in)action in obesity: Implications for research on treatment and prevention |
| title_full | Choices of (in)action in obesity: Implications for research on treatment and prevention |
| title_fullStr | Choices of (in)action in obesity: Implications for research on treatment and prevention |
| title_full_unstemmed | Choices of (in)action in obesity: Implications for research on treatment and prevention |
| title_short | Choices of (in)action in obesity: Implications for research on treatment and prevention |
| title_sort | choices of in action in obesity implications for research on treatment and prevention |
| topic | obesity risk-taking passive risk overweight inhibition initiation |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.988495/full |
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