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Volume 7, Issue 3 (Suppl) J Obes Weight Loss Ther, an open access journal
ISSN: 2165-7904 Childhood Obesity & Bariatric Surgery 2017
June 12-13, 2017
June 12-13, 2017 Rome, Italy
& Childhood Obesity and Nutrition
10th International Conference on
Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
2nd International Conference on
JOINT EVENT
Neuromindfulness:Anopportunity to recoverneurocognitive deficits in childhoodobesity; correspondences
between dysfunctions and neurocognitive recovery of the default network
Rosa Calvo Sagardoy and M Victoria Paz Domingo
Hospital Universitario La Paz, Spain
Statement of the Problem: Childhood obesity rates have risen dramatically over the past few decades and accordingly, scientific
research and healthcare professionals are increasing their interest about this global problem. Obesity has been linked to poorer
neurocognitive functioning in adults, much less is known about this relationship in children and adolescents.
Aim: The purpose of this study is to describe how neuromindfulness works through default network as a possibility not only to
recover neurocognitive deficits but facilitate an eating based on internal cues in people who suffer from obesity.
Methodology & Theoretical Orientation: This is a descriptive qualitative research in which recent scientific literature toward
neuromindfulness networks and obesity was reviewed.
Findings: Obesity is associated to dysfunctional connectivity within brain regions linked to interoception (insula), emotional memory
(middle temporal gyrus) and cognitive control (dorsolateral prefrontal cortex). The global brain connectivity in obese patients is
consistently decreased in the prefrontal cortex, insula, amygdala and caudate nucleus, and increased in brain regions belonging to
the dorsal attention network. People who practice mindfulness show cortical thickness increased in insula and amygdala-prefrontal
cortex integration. The default mode network has been implicated in awareness and it improves with mindfulness and overlap with
some brain structures affected in obesity.
Conclusion & Significance: There is a correspondence between default mode network and brain regions affected in obese patients.
Mindfulness techniques could be a possibility not only to help obesity adult patients but would prevent these deficits if obese
children practice meditation. Neuromindfulness represent a promising approach to obese children given that the recovery of these
neurocognitive deficits could facilitate the development of an eating based on internal cues of hunger and satiety which regulate body
weight naturally.
J Obes Weight Loss Ther 2017, 7:3 (Suppl)
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7904-C1-046