Assari Shervin, Boyce Shanika, Bazargan Mohsen
Department of Family Medicine, Charles Drew University, Los Angeles, CA 90059, USA.
Department of Urban Public Health, Charles Drew University, Los Angeles, CA 90059, USA;.
Brain Sci. 2020 Oct 3;10(10):703. doi: 10.3390/brainsci10100703.
The epidemiological observation that NAc functional connectivity is associated with BMI changes in children is an extension of well-controlled laboratory studies that have established the role of the NAc in the brain reward processing. More research is needed on sex differences in the brain regions that contribute to childhood obesity.
流行病学观察发现,伏隔核功能连接性与儿童体重指数变化相关,这是对精心控制的实验室研究的拓展,这些研究已确定了伏隔核在大脑奖赏处理中的作用。对于导致儿童肥胖的脑区中的性别差异,还需要开展更多研究。