Weight loss requires a change in eating habits. In most cases, people successfully lost weight regain it after some time. For this reason, obesity-related research programs increasingly often focus on psychological factors that make lifestyle changes and weight reduction maintenance difficult. Self-efficacy is one of the key determinants of weight loss maintenance (1). Dieting self-efficacy (DI...

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BACKGROUND A considerable number of bariatric patients report poor long-term weight loss after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) surgery. One possibility for an underlying cause is an impairment of cognitive control that impedes this patient group's dietary efforts. OBJECTIVE To investigate if patients having either poor or good weight loss response, ~12 years after RYGB-surgery, differ in thei...

OBJECTIVES This study tested the psychometric properties of the French version of the Dutch Eating Behavior Questionnaire (DEBQ) for normal weight and obese patients; determined the factors associated with each DEBQ score: emotional eating (eating in response to emotional arousal states such as fear, anger or anxiety), externality (eating in response to external food cues such as sight and smel...

The well-documented finding that obese adults have a high likelihood of weight regain following participation in behavioural weight loss programmes highlights the importance of developing more effective approaches for weight loss maintenance. One promising approach is to improve the quality of social support for effective weight control available to an obese individual by including support peop...

Background: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is the stage between the expected cognitive decline of normal aging and the more serious decline of dementia. In the present study, the effect of Boswellia serrata (BS) on improvement of memory impairment in patients with MCI was investigated. Methods: In this single-center randomized double-blind placebo-controlled ...

BACKGROUND Studies have reported that up to 60% of individuals with schizophrenia are overweight or obese. This study explored the relationship between obesity and cognitive performance in Chinese patients with schizophrenia. METHODS Outpatients with schizophrenia aged 18-50 years were recruited from 10 study sites across China. Demographic and clinical information was collected. A neuropsych...

abstractthis study aimed at investigating the relationship between iranian efl learners’ reading strategy use and emotional intelligence (ei) as well as exploring the most frequently-used reading strategies which can facilitate the process of reading comprehension. to this end, a group of 60 was selected out of 274 university learners majoring in tefl and english translation. based on english p...

The aim was to evaluate associations between frailty status and cognitive decline and the incidence of cognitive impairment over 12-month period. Two hundred seven older adults were assessed. Frailty was defined as having at least three of the following criteria: weight loss, weakness, exhaustion, slowness, and low level of activity. Cognitive decline was assessed using the Mini Mental State Ex...

Exposure to shiftwork has been associated with multiple health disorders and cognitive impairments in humans. We tested if we could replicate metabolic and cognitive consequences of shiftwork, as reported in humans, in a rat model comparable to 5 wks of non-rotating night shifts. The following hypotheses were addressed: (i) shiftwork enhances body-weight gain, which would indicate metabolic eff...