Seventeen articles were reviewed which assessed obesity and cognitive function across a variety of cognitive domains. Before consideration of obesity related comorbidities, findings provide evidence that Adriamycin HCl mid-life obese individuals exhibit cognitive problems in the following domains: intellectual functioning, psychomotor performance and speed, visual construction, concept formation and set shifting, and decision making. Limited evidence was available for the domain of time estimation. Available evidence was equivocal for a relationship between obesity and visual memory, verbal memory, complex attention, delay discounting and inhibition. There was no evidence of deficits in the areas of general cognitive performance, time judgement, working memory and verbal fluency. While these results support the conclusions from a previous review that found consistent evidence that mid-life obesity was associated with impaired cognitive function, specifically in the area of executive functioning [19], pollen grains has also identified evidence for a relationship between obesity and intellectual functioning, psychomotor performance and speed, and visual construction.
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