Mehta S

Effects of Anxiety on Caloric Intake and Satiety-Related Brain Activation in Women and Men

Mestre ZL, Melhorn SJ, Askren MK, Tyagi V, Gatenby C, Young L, Mehta S, Webb MF, Grabowski TJ, Schur EA. Objective To test the relationship of anxiety to caloric intake and food cue perception in women and men. Methods Fifty-five twins (26 complete, 3 incomplete pairs; 51% women) underwent 2 functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) […]

Brain regulation of appetite in twins

Melhorn SJ, Mehta S, Kratz M, Tyagi V, Webb MF, Noonan CJ, Buchwald DS, Goldberg J, Maravilla KR, Grabowski TJ, Schur EA Background Neural responses to highly energetic food cues are robust and are suppressed by eating. It is not known if neural responsiveness to food cues is an inherited trait and possibly even one […]