Petit, Olivia, Basso, Frédéric 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3709-8331, Huguet, Pascal, Plassmann, Hilke and Oullier, Olivier
(2011)
Food behaviour and obesity: insights from decision neuroscience.
Médecine / Sciences, 27 (11).
pp. 1000-1008.
ISSN 0767-0974
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.medecinesciences.org/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2011 EDP Sciences |
| Divisions: | Psychological and Behavioural Science |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0321 Neuroscience. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jan 2014 10:07 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Apr 2024 08:19 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/52983 |
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