Using fMRI, his team scanned
the brains of adolescent girls with differing BMIs while they viewed pictures of appetizing foods and imagined eating what they saw.
Not exact matches
Obese
adolescent girls, Stice found, showed greater activation compared with their lean peers in regions
of the
brain that encode the sensory experience
of eating food — the so - called gustatory cortex and the somatosensory regions, archipelagoes
of neurons that reach across different structures in the
brain.
She is the author
of How
Girls Thrive,
Girls Will Be
Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters, Your Fantastic Elastic
Brain, and The Driver s Manual for Your
Adolescent Brain.
This is where the pressure begins for
girls and by early adolescence (from 10 - 11) the unique
brain changes that are a normal part
of adolescent development can create havoc with how
girls see themselves.