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From: Poor ability to resist tempting calorie rich food is linked to altered balance between neural systems involved in urge and self-control

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Design of the study. A) The schematic of the procedure. Participants were asked to visit the lab for two sessions: one behavior session and one fMRI session. B) The illustration of the event-related food-specific go/nogo tasks 1) low-calorie food go/high-calorie food nogo task (LGo task), and 2) high-calorie food go/low-calorie food nogo task (HGo task). Participants were asked to press a button as soon as possible to the go trials (vegetable pictures in LGo task and snack pictures in HGo task) and withhold the response to the nogo trials (snack pictures in LGo task and vegetable pictures in HGo task). The order of tasks was counterbalanced across subjects. SCID: structured clinical interview for DSM-IV; WASI: Wechsler abbreviated scale of intelligence; SOPT: self-ordered pointing task; BMI: body mass index; NDSR: nutrition data system for research; fMRI: functional magnetic resonance imaging; ITI: intertribal interval.

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Nutrition Journal

ISSN: 1475-2891

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