Obese women may have learning deficit specific to food

Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 14:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Obese women have a deficit in reward-based learning, but only when food is involved. Importantly, say researchers, those same women have no trouble at all forming accurate associations when the reward is money instead of food. The findings may lead to new, gender-appropriate ways to tackle the obesity epidemic.

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