Executive Dysfunction in Adolescent with Obesity: A Systematic Review

Abstract

Obesity has been linked to low cognitive performance throughout the human life span. Alterations relate to attention, memory, language, and executive function. However, the obesity-executive function association remains unclear in adolescents. This study presents a systematic review of executive function alterations in adolescents with obesity. A search equation was proposed (Executive dysfunction AND Obesity AND Adolescents), with sixty studies meeting the inclusion criteria in the Clarivate Analytics Web of Science Core Collection database. A bibliometric analysis was conducted to identify the importance of the research topic and a citation network was built to establish the lines of research. Finally, the citation network was exported to Gephi to visualize the research groups studying the topic. Findings suggest 4 lines of research: (a) structural and functional brain abnormalities in adolescents with obesity, (b) inhibitory control alterations in adolescents with obesity, (c) effects of physical and cognitive activity on the executive function of adolescents with obesity, and (d) working memory alterations in adolescents with obesity. Obese adolescents were found to prefer immediate rewards to long-term ones. Nevertheless, effective interventions increase the intake of fruit and vegetables and reduce that of calorie-dense food. The authors recommend additional longitudinal studies to assess whether executive function alterations are either a cause or a consequence of adolescent obesity.

Static Code Analysis: A Tree of Science Review

“…ToS creates a citation network and then applies the SAP algorithm to identify the relevant papers [6], [9]. ToS has been applied to identify relevant literature in management [10]- [12], psychology [13], education [14], health [15], and engineering [16]. The explanation of the ToS diffusion is found in Eggers et al [17].…”

Análisis cienciométrico sobre tendencias de investigación del riesgo suicida en la infancia y la adolescencia

“…Estos análisis son ampliamente utilizados en la literatura psicológica actual (Arbeláez et al, 2023;Landínez et al, 2021;Landínez et al, 2022), dado que permiten reducir los sesgos de selección y clasificación de la relevancia e impacto de las investigaciones para procesar abundantes volúmenes de registros bibliográficos. Se utilizaron los softwares Sci2 tool (Sci2 Team, 2009) y Gephi (Bastian et al, 2009) para la transformación de los apuntes y el listado de referencias en una red gráfica de citaciones.…”