Shannon D Donofry1, John M Jakicic, Renee J Rogers, Jennifer C Watt, Kathryn A Roecklein, Kirk I Erickson. 1. From the Department of Psychiatry (Donofry), University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine; Departments of Psychology (Donofry, Watt, Roecklein, Erickson) and Health and Physical Activity (Jakicic, Rogers), and Healthy Lifestyle Institute (Jakicic, Rogers), University of Pittsburgh; and The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (Roecklein, Erickson), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: Obesity is associated with differences in task-evoked and resting-state functional brain connectivity (FC). However, no studies have compared obesity-related differences in FC evoked by high-calorie food cues from that observed at rest. Such a comparison could improve our understanding of the neural mechanisms of reward valuation and decision making in the context of obesity. METHODS: The sample included 122 adults (78% female; mean age = 44.43 [8.67] years) with body mass index (BMI) in the overweight or obese range (mean = 31.28 [3.92] kg/m). Participants completed a functional magnetic resonance imaging scan that included a resting period followed by a visual food cue task. Whole-brain FC analyses examined seed-to-voxel signal covariation during the presentation of high-calorie food and at rest using seeds located in the left and right orbitofrontal cortex, left hippocampus, and left dorsomedial prefrontal cortex. RESULTS: For all seeds examined, BMI was associated with stronger FC during the presentation of high-calorie food, but weaker FC at rest. Regions exhibiting BMI-related modulation of signal coherence in the presence of palatable food cues were largely located within the default mode network (z range = 2.34-4.91), whereas regions exhibiting BMI-related modulation of signal coherence at rest were located within the frontostriatal and default mode networks (z range = 3.05-4.11). All FC results exceeded a voxelwise threshold of p < .01 and cluster-defining familywise error threshold of p < .05. CONCLUSIONS: These dissociable patterns of FC may suggest separate neural mechanisms contributing to variation in distinct cognitive, psychological, or behavioral domains that may be related to individual differences in risk for obesity.
OBJECTIVE: Obesity is associated with differences in task-evoked and resting-state functional brain connectivity (FC). However, no studies have compared obesity-related differences in FC evoked by high-calorie food cues from that observed at rest. Such a comparison could improve our understanding of the neural mechanisms of reward valuation and decision making in the context of obesity. METHODS: The sample included 122 adults (78% female; mean age = 44.43 [8.67] years) with body mass index (BMI) in the overweight or obese range (mean = 31.28 [3.92] kg/m). Participants completed a functional magnetic resonance imaging scan that included a resting period followed by a visual food cue task. Whole-brain FC analyses examined seed-to-voxel signal covariation during the presentation of high-calorie food and at rest using seeds located in the left and right orbitofrontal cortex, left hippocampus, and left dorsomedial prefrontal cortex. RESULTS: For all seeds examined, BMI was associated with stronger FC during the presentation of high-calorie food, but weaker FC at rest. Regions exhibiting BMI-related modulation of signal coherence in the presence of palatable food cues were largely located within the default mode network (z range = 2.34-4.91), whereas regions exhibiting BMI-related modulation of signal coherence at rest were located within the frontostriatal and default mode networks (z range = 3.05-4.11). All FC results exceeded a voxelwise threshold of p < .01 and cluster-defining familywise error threshold of p < .05. CONCLUSIONS: These dissociable patterns of FC may suggest separate neural mechanisms contributing to variation in distinct cognitive, psychological, or behavioral domains that may be related to individual differences in risk for obesity.
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