UNASSIGNED: Obesity has become an international health crisis. There is accumulating evidence that excess bodyweight is associated with changes to the structure and function of the brain and with a number of @entity73 . In particular, research suggests that @entity28 is associated with @entity75 , which would be predicted to impact memory. However evidence for such @entity2414 is currently limited. We hypothesised that higher BMI would be associated with reduced performance on a test of episodic memory that assesses not only content, but also context and feature integration. 50 @entity1 aged 18-35, with BMIs ranging from 18 to 51, were tested on a novel what-where-when style episodic memory test: The "Treasure-Hunt Task". This test requires recollection of object, location, and temporal order information within the same paradigm, as well as testing the ability to integrate these features into a single event recollection. Higher BMI was associated with significantly lower performance on the What-Where-When memory task and all individual elements: object identification, location memory, and temporal order memory. After controlling for age, sex and years in education, the effect of BMI on the individual what, where and when tasks remained, while the WWW dropped below significance. This finding of episodic @entity2414 in @entity28 is of concern given the emerging evidence for a role for episodic cognition in appetite regulation.

Higher BMI is Associated with XXXX in Young Adults.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['participants'] @entity28 :: ('MESH:D009765', 'Disease') :: ['obesity'] @entity75 :: ('MESH:D001927', 'Disease') :: ['hippocampal and frontal lobe dysfunction'] @entity73 :: ('MESH:D003072', 'Disease') :: ['cognitive deficits'] @entity2414 :: ('MESH:D008569', 'Disease') :: ['memory deficits', 'memory impairment']
@entity2414 :: (MESH:D008569,Disease) :: ['Episodic Memory Deficits']
