“…We predicted that LSG surgery would result in decreased FCD in regions, implicated in impaired self-control and self-referential processing (Northoff et al, 2006;Striepens et al, 2016) (VMPFC, DMPFC, precuneus), memory (HIPP), and interoception (insula), increasing connectivity of self-referential processing regions with regions involved with executive function/self-regulation (DLPFC, caudate). We predicted that LSG surgery would result in decreased FCD in regions, implicated in impaired self-control and self-referential processing (Northoff et al, 2006;Striepens et al, 2016) (VMPFC, DMPFC, precuneus), memory (HIPP), and interoception (insula), increasing connectivity of self-referential processing regions with regions involved with executive function/self-regulation (DLPFC, caudate).…”