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    Executive functioning in obese individuals waiting for clinical treatment
    (Colegio Oficial de Psicologos Asturias, 2017) Gameiro, Fátima; Perea, Maria Victoria; Ladera, Valentina; Rosa, Beatriz; García, Ricardo; FCSEA - Faculty of Social Sciences, Education and Administration; EPCV - School of Psychology and Life Sciences
    Background: Executive functions have an important role in human behavioural regulation and can be a determinant of eating behaviour. Our aim was to study the different components of executive functions in obese individuals waiting for clinical treatment, comparing them with normoweight subjects with similar socio-demographic characteristics. Method: A total of 114 adults (76 obese and 38 normoweight) completed a neuropsychological battery that included tasks of conceptualization and abstraction, motor programming, response maintenance, inhibition and resistance, problem solving, cognitive flexibility, and verbal fluency. Results: There was a statistically significant difference between groups for all the dimensions of the executive functions evaluated, with the obese group showing poorer performance compared to normoweight. Conclusions: Obese individuals demonstrated poorer executive functions than normoweight individuals.
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    Risks of obesity in adolescence : the role of physical activity in executive functions
    (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2021) Gameiro, Fátima; Rosa, Beatriz; FCSEA - Faculty of Social Sciences, Education and Administration; Institute for Social Work; EPCV - School of Psychology and Life Sciences
    The aim of this study was to analyze the efficiency of a physical activity program on executive performance in obese adolescents. Fifteen adolescents (5 males and 10 females), with a mean age of 14.73 years and an IMC mean of 36.74 participated in the study. None of the participants presented a compulsive eating disorder when screened by the Binge Eating Scale. A pretest and posttest assessment, twelve months later, was conducted by using a neuropsychological battery that evaluated the cognitive flexibility (Comprehensive Trail Making Test), inhibition control (Stroop Neuropsychological Screening Test and by the Frontal Assessment Battery), and planning (Tower of London). ANOVA of repeated measures was performed. The within-subjects tests demonstrated significant statistical differences between the two moments of evaluation at the level of inhibitory control and cognitive flexibility tasks, with higher performances in the second evaluation. These results suggest that the inclusion of obese adolescents in such programs may promote their executive capacities.