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Janet Ng
Researcher at University of Alberta
Publications - 29
Citations - 1580
Janet Ng is an academic researcher from University of Alberta. The author has contributed to research in topics: Eating disorders & Chordeiles. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 26 publications receiving 1371 citations. Previous affiliations of Janet Ng include National University of Singapore & University of Oregon.
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Attentional bias to food images associated with elevated weight and future weight gain: an fMRI study.
Sonja Yokum,Janet Ng,Eric Stice +2 more
TL;DR: Results indicate that overweight is related to greater attentional bias to food cues and that youth who show elevated reward circuitry responsivity during food cue exposure are at increased risk for weight gain.
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Relation of obesity to consummatory and anticipatory food reward
TL;DR: Findings imply that individuals who show greater activation in the gustatory cortex and somatosensory regions in response to anticipation and consumption of food, but who show weakeractivation in the striatum during food intake, may be at risk for overeating, particularly those at genetic risk for lowered dopamine receptor signaling.
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Risk factors and prodromal eating pathology
Eric Stice,Janet Ng,Heather Shaw +2 more
TL;DR: Research on risk factors and prodromal stages of eating pathology has assisted in the design of efficacious prevention programs and the identification of high-risk individuals to target with these interventions; additional research in this area may lead to even more effective prevention programs.
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Relation of regional gray and white matter volumes to current BMI and future increases in BMI: a prospective MRI study
Sonja Yokum,Janet Ng,Eric Stice +2 more
TL;DR: Findings suggest that BMI is related to global and regional differences in brain matter volume in female adolescents and suggest that low GM volume in regions implicated in inhibitory control are related to future weight gain.
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An fMRI study of obesity, food reward, and perceived caloric density. Does a low-fat label make food less appealing? ☆
TL;DR: Results suggest that hyper-responsivity of somatosensory, gustatory, and reward valuation regions may be related to overeating and that top-down processing influence reward encoding, which could further contribute to weight gain.