Cue-Reward Learning and Weight Gain in Youth

• Healthy weight children between the ages of 8 and 11 Years
• BMI 5-75th percentile
• Child must be right-handed
• Child must be willing to participate in an fMRI scan
• Either two biological parents who are overweight/obese or no biological parents that are overweight/obese
• One biological parent willing to bring child to assessment visits
• Child and participating parent Fluent in English for speaking, reading, and writing
• Child must like cheese pizza and chocolate milkshake

Exclusion Criteria:

• Child overweight (BMI≥85th percentile)
• Child diagnoses of a serious chronic physical disease (e.g., diabetes) for which physician supervision of diet and exercise prescription are needed
• Child who is taking medications that may impact brain responses (can take kids who are stable on meds)
• Child with MRI contraindications (presence of metallic foreign object or device in body, piercings that cannot be removed, tattooed permanent makeup that contain metal, braces, head trauma, claustrophobia, use of Bigen permanent hair dye)
• Child with an active eating disorder (reported on EDE interview) or with first degree relative with Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia Nervosa
• Cognitive impairment or disability determined through parent and child self-report measures, and parent reported child individual education plan
• Vision problems uncorrectable with lenses
• Food allergies related to cheese pizza, chocolate milkshake, or the snack foods used in the study
• Menarche in female participants at time of enrollment
• Children scoring within the midpubertal range or higher based on the Pubertal Development Scale