BACKGROUND: An important step in obesity research involves identifying neurobiological
underpinnings of nonfood reward processing unique to specific subgroups of obese
individuals. METHODS: Nineteen obese individuals seeking treatment for binge eating
disorder (BED) were compared with 19 non-BED obese individuals (OB) and 19 lean control
subjects (LC) while performing a monetary reward/loss task that parses anticipatory and
outcome components during functional magnetic resonance imaging. Differences in …