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Fátima Gameiro1, Maria V Perea, Valentina Ladera
1Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias.
Background:
Executive functions have an important role in human behavioural regulation and can be a determinant of eating behaviour. Our aim was to study the different components of executive functions in obese individuals waiting for clinical treatment, comparing them with normoweight subjects with similar socio-demographic characteristics.
Method:
A total of 114 adults (76 obese and 38 normoweight) completed a neuropsychological battery that included tasks of conceptualization and abstraction, motor programming, response maintenance, inhibition and resistance, problem solving, cognitive flexibility, and verbal fluency.
Results:
There was a statistically significant difference between groups for all the dimensions of the executive functions evaluated, with the obese group showing poorer performance compared to normoweight.
Conclusions:
Obese individuals demonstrated poorer executive functions than normoweight individuals.
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