Abstract Background Binge eating is a relatively common disordered behavior among children, and associated with poor health outcomes. Executive function (EF)—higher order cognitive abilities related to planning impulse control—may be implicated in both binge pediatric obesity. Although EF deficits are evident individuals obesity and/or eating, findings mixed across the lifespan. Methods The pre...

BACKGROUND Behavioral interventions for weight-loss have been largely unsuccessful. Exercise is the strongest predictor of maintained weight loss and much of its effects may be from associated changes in psychosocial factors. METHODS Middle-aged, formerly sedentary adults with severe obesity were randomly selected to 6-month treatments of cognitive-behavioral exercise support paired with eith...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this study was to test the association of mean adult word counts at 32 and 36 weeks' postmenstrual age in the NICU with Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, 3rd Edition (Bayley-III), cognitive and language scores. It was hypothesized that preterm infants exposed to higher word counts would have higher cognitive and language scores at 7 and 18 months' corrected ...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the relationship between very low birth weight and learning difficulties at school by means of a systematic review of the literature, identifying patterns of learning difficulties among these schoolchildren, possible cognitive correlations, peculiarities of the lowest birth weight ranges and any interference with outcomes by socioeconomic and/or clinical factors. SOU...