Cognitive function limited in obesity

• Hugh Thomas

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

 

(2016)

 

doi:10.1038/nrendo.2015.229

Published online

 

04 January 2016

“While there is a detailed literature suggesting there are deficits in cognitive functions such as cognitive flexibility, learning and memory in patients with obesity who have metabolic diseases, such as those with the metabolic syndrome or type 2 diabetes mellitus, literature focusing on obese but otherwise healthy people is lacking,” explains author Miriam Bocarsly. “Recently, studies have emerged indicating that metabolically healthy people with obesity have cognitive deficits, as well as reduced volumes of certain brain regions, including those important in cognition.”