Efficacy of a food response and attention training treatment for obesity: A randomized placebo controlled trial

Can smartphone‐based response inhibition training elicit sustained changes in appetite, preference, and cravings for energy‐dense foods? A free‐living randomized controlled trial

“…The lack of difference between groups during the food choice task in the present study may be attributed to this dynamic. Contrary to expectations, and results from a recent trial (Stice et al, 2022) were the trends in absolute values of explicit liking for foods based on their energy density. The main time effect was only present for the energy-dense foods.…”

“…However, the disparity may be attributable to the different approach taken with the control comparison in the present study. Contrary to control designations in previous trials which included exclusively (i.e., non-food) stimuli (Lawrence, O'Sullivan, et al, 2015;Oomen et al, 2018;Porter et al, 2018Porter et al, , 2021Stice et al, 2022;Yang et al, 2021), the control activity in this study included food cues. Indeed, there have typically been two types of task manipulations in previous trials that have served as control comparisons.…”

Randomized Controlled Trial of Effects of Behavioral Weight Loss Treatment on Food Cue Reactivity

“…The long-term effectiveness of weight loss treatments might be improved by strengthening extinction learning to diminish automatic reward responses to HCF. Several interventions that target food reward response have been developed and tested (Stice et al, 2017(Stice et al, , 2022. However, the efficacy of these interventions in mitigating responses to food stimuli in reward-related regions of the brain, as well as in inducing weight loss, has been mixed.…”

“…The food response intervention was associated with significantly greater pre–post reduction in neural responsivity to HCF versus LCF in reward-related areas of the brain, including the insula (Stice et al, 2017). However, in a larger randomized controlled trial testing this intervention, no significant differences were observed between groups in body fat loss and neural response to HCF (Stice et al, 2022). Additional studies are needed to examine the benefits of integrating interventions focused on bottom-up, implicit processes (Strack & Deutsch, 2004) to improve neural responses to food stimuli and weight loss.…”

Self-control training supplementing inpatient multidisciplinary obesity treatment in children and adolescents

“…In line with the reflective-impulsive dual pathway perspective, individuals with obesity might benefit from a multifaceted training that not only aims at learning how to redirect attention away from palatable food (decrease stimulus reactivity), but also how to withhold responses towards them (increase inhibition). In contrast, only a handful of (pilot) studies, by Stice et al (2022; in adults and by Verbeken, Braet, Naets, Houben, and Boendermaker (2018) in children and adolescents, investigated the effects of multifaceted self-control training in obesity and showed rather modest and inconsistent results. Moreover, these studies were conducted in convenience samples such as (normal weight) undergraduate students, and the studies in those suffering from overweight or obesity (Bazzaz et al, 2017;Blackburne et al, 2016;Kemps et al, 2016) are scarce.…”