title: Executive functioning in obese individuals waiting for clinical treatment.
abstract: 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.
  
  
  METHODS
  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.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias.
authors.forename: Fátima
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gameiro
authors.forename: Maria V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Perea
authors.forename: Valentina
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ladera
authors.forename: Beatriz
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rosa
authors.forename: Ricardo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: García
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003071:Cognition; D004644:Emotions; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D009765:Obesity / Q000523:psychology*; D011340:Problem Solving; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014705:Verbal Behavior