Claire Curtis

TL;DR: Those who met the diagnostic criteria for FA had a significantly greater co-morbidity with Binge Eating Disorder, depression, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder compared to their age- and weight-equivalent counterparts.

TL;DR: Results provided an excellent fit of the model to the data confirming the view that a personality trait like STR can only influence a physical condition like body weight indirectly by the way it co-varies with behaviours that contribute directly to variation in the outcome variable.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that adaptive decision-making and the ability to delay gratification may influence the authors' eating behaviours, particularly in a food environment where effortful control of energy intake is essential for the maintenance of a healthy body weight.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that BED is a biologically based subtype of obesity and that the proneness to binge eating may be influenced by a hyper‐reactivity to the hedonic properties of food—a predisposition that is easily exploited in the authors' current environment with its highly visible and easily accessible surfeit of sweet and fatty foods.

TL;DR: The present study implemented psychological and biological markers of reward sensitivity in the assessment protocol to address the issue of the sensitivity of dopamine reward pathways in binge eating disorder and obesity, and has implications for future studies of the molecular genetics of BED and obesity.