Abstract
The Obesity Society, founded in 1982, conducts the most comprehensive annual scientific meeting on obesity in North America. Annually, the meeting brings together over 2000 scientists and healthcare professionals of various specialties to allow a multidisciplinary forum on this burdensome disease. Numerous basic science presentations addressed the importance of the brain’s role in obesity. Investigating the role of the human brain in obesity has been limited until more recent advances in biomedical imaging. This review details the symposium that was held at this year’s annual meeting of The Obesity Society on ‘Neuroimaging in obesity’, bringing together current leader’s in this emerging field.
Acknowledgements
We thank Robyn Tamboli for editing support.
Financial & competing interests disclosure
Julia P Dunn received support from the Vanderbilt Environmental Health Science Scholars Program (NIEHS K12 ESO15855). This work was supported by NIH grants RO1-DK070860, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases to NNA, and DK20593, to the Vanderbilt Diabetes Research and Training Center. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or entity with a financial interest in or financial conflict with the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript apart from those disclosed.
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