Gameiro, FátimaPerea, Maria VictoriaLadera, ValentinaRosa, BeatrizGarcía, Ricardo2017Gameiro, F, Perea, M V, Ladera, V, Rosa, B & García, R 2017, 'Executive functioning in obese individuals waiting for clinical treatment', Psicothema, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 61-66. https://doi.org/10.7334/psicothema2016.2020214-9915Publisher Copyright: © 2017 Psicothema.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.engopenAccessPSICOLOGIAAVALIAÇÃO NEUROPSICOLÓGICAFUNÇÕES EXECUTIVASOBESIDADEPSYCHOLOGYNEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENTEXECUTIVE FUNCTIONSOBESITYarticlehttps://doi.org/10.7334/psicothema2016.202http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85010906071&partnerID=8YFLogxKhttps://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85010906071