title: [Food behaviour and obesity: insights from decision neuroscience].
abstract: Neuroimaging allows to estimate brain activity when individuals are doing something. The location and intensity of this estimated activity provides information on the dynamics and processes that guide choice behaviour and associated actions that should be considered a complement to behavioural studies. Decision neuroscience therefore sheds new light on whether the brain evaluates and compares alternatives when decisions are made, or if other processes are at stake. This work helped to demonstrate that the situations faced by individuals (risky, uncertain, delayed in time) do not all have the same (behavioural) complexity, and are not underlined by activity in the cerebral networks. Taking into account brain dynamics of people (suffering from obesity or not) when making food consumption decisions might allow for improved strategies in public health prevention, far from the rational choice theory promoted by neoclassical economics.
authors: Laboratoire de psychologie cognitive, Université de Provence et CNRS, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille Cedex 3, France. olivier@oulier.fr
authors: Olivia
authors: O
authors: Petit
authors: Frédéric
authors: F
authors: Basso
authors: Pascal
authors: P
authors: Huguet
authors: Hilke
authors: H
authors: Plassmann
authors: Olivier
authors: O
authors: Oullier
mesh_terms: D001069:Appetite Regulation / Q000502:physiology; D002755:Choice Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology*; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology*; D005502:Food / Q000191:economics; D005518:Food Preferences / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009488:Neurosciences; D009765:Obesity / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D012201:Reward; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology