A pilot study linking reduced fronto–Striatal recruitment during reward processing to persistent bingeing following treatment for binge‐eating disorder

OBJECTIVE: The primary purpose of this study was to examine neurobiological underpinnings of reward processing that may relate to treatment outcome for binge-eating disorder (BED). METHOD: Prior to starting treatment, 19 obese persons seeking treatment for BED performed a monetary incentive delay task during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Analyses examined how the neural correlates of reward processing related to binge-eating …