Adiposity affects emotional information processing

Romero-Rebollar, César; García-Gómez, Leonor; Báez-Yáñez, M; Gutiérrez-Aguilar, Ruth; Pacheco-López, Gustavo

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.879065

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“…The small but significant associations were also identified for BMI with emotion recognition performance, which replicated previous findings [ 30 , 31 ]. These findings suggested that interventions aim at losing weight might be beneficial to increase emotion recognition ability.…”

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“…For example, long total sleep duration was positively associated with improved ability to recognize facial expression [ 28 ], although the evidence was not totally consistent [ 29 ]. Though not conclusive, the association between BMI and emotion recognition has been repeatedly reported in the previous literature, suggesting that a high BMI might impair the ability to recognize emotion [ 30 , 31 ]. A recent systematic review found that facial emotion recognition problems were linked to ADHD and conduct problems [ 32 ].…”

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Facial Emotion Recognition Deficit in Children with Moderate/Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Fu-jun

Chen

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Brain Sciences

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Although previous studies have reported a facial expression classification deficit among adults with SDB, we do not know whether these findings can be generalized to children. In our study, children with sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) were divided into three groups: primary snoring (n = 51), mild obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) (n = 39), and moderate/severe OSA (n = 26). All participants, including 20 healthy controls, underwent an overnight polysomnography recording and the Emotional Expression Recognition Task. Psychosocial problems were evaluated using the parent-reported Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). There was a borderline significant interaction between expression category and group on reaction times. Further analysis revealed that positive classification advantage (PCA) disappeared in the moderate/severe OSA group, whereas it persisted in the control, primary snoring, and mild OSA groups. Emotional symptoms were positively correlated with OAHI. In both the happy and sad conditions, RT was negatively related to age and body mass index (BMI) but was independent of the obstructive apnea-hypopnea index (OAHI), arterial oxygen (SaO2) and total sleep time. The accuracy of identifying a sad expression was negatively related to conduct problems. Children with moderate/severe OSA exhibited dysfunction in facial expression categorization, which could potentially affect social communication ability.

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Facial Emotion Recognition Deficit in Children with Moderate/Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Fu-jun

Chen

et al. 2022

Brain Sciences

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Implicit weight bias: shared neural substrates for overweight and angry facial expressions revealed by cross-adaptation

Luo,

Zhao,

Gao

et al. 2024

Cerebral Cortex

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The perception of facial expression plays a crucial role in social communication, and it is known to be influenced by various facial cues. Previous studies have reported both positive and negative biases toward overweight individuals. It is unclear whether facial cues, such as facial weight, bias facial expression perception. Combining psychophysics and event-related potential technology, the current study adopted a cross-adaptation paradigm to examine this issue. The psychophysical results of Experiments 1A and 1B revealed a bidirectional cross-adaptation effect between overweight and angry faces. Adapting to overweight faces decreased the likelihood of perceiving ambiguous emotional expressions as angry compared to adapting to normal-weight faces. Likewise, exposure to angry faces subsequently caused normal-weight faces to appear thinner. These findings were corroborated by bidirectional event-related potential results, showing that adaptation to overweight faces relative to normal-weight faces modulated the event-related potential responses of emotionally ambiguous facial expression (Experiment 2A); vice versa, adaptation to angry faces relative to neutral faces modulated the event-related potential responses of ambiguous faces in facial weight (Experiment 2B). Our study provides direct evidence associating overweight faces with facial expression, suggesting at least partly common neural substrates for the perception of overweight and angry faces.

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Obesity and Insulin Resistance Moderate the Associations between Brain Potentials, Negative Affect Regulation, and Reflexive Speed of Visual Attention to Pleasant Stimuli in Young Adults

Larsen,

Klinedinst,

Wolf

et al. 2024

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Adiposity affects emotional information processing

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References 56 publications

Facial Emotion Recognition Deficit in Children with Moderate/Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Facial Emotion Recognition Deficit in Children with Moderate/Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Implicit weight bias: shared neural substrates for overweight and angry facial expressions revealed by cross-adaptation

Obesity and Insulin Resistance Moderate the Associations between Brain Potentials, Negative Affect Regulation, and Reflexive Speed of Visual Attention to Pleasant Stimuli in Young Adults

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