PMID- 37447320 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230717 LR - 20230718 IS - 2072-6643 (Electronic) IS - 2072-6643 (Linking) VI - 15 IP - 13 DP - 2023 Jun 30 TI - Binge-Eating Precursors in Children and Adolescents: Neurodevelopment, and the Potential Contribution of Ultra-Processed Foods. LID - 10.3390/nu15132994 [doi] LID - 2994 AB - Binge-eating disorder (BED) is a highly prevalent disorder. Subthreshold BED conditions (sBED) are even more frequent in youth, but their significance regarding BED etiology and long-term prognosis is unclear. A better understanding of brain findings associated with BED and sBED, in the context of critical periods for neurodevelopment, is relevant to answer such questions. The present narrative review starts from the knowledge of the development of emotional self-regulation in youth, and the brain circuits supporting emotion-regulation and eating behaviour. Next, neuroimaging studies with sBED and BED samples will be reviewed, and their brain-circuitry overlap will be examined. Deficits in inhibition control systems are observed to precede, and hyperactivity of reward regions to characterize, sBED, with overlapping findings in BED. The imbalance between reward/inhibition systems, and the implication of interoception/homeostatic processing brain systems should be further examined. Recent knowledge of the potential impact that the high consumption of ultra-processed foods in paediatric samples may have on these sBED/BED-associated brain systems is then discussed. There is a need to identify, early on, those sBED individuals at risk of developing BED at neurodevelopmental stages when there is a great possibility of prevention. However, more neuroimaging studies with sBED/BED pediatric samples are needed. FAU - Via, Esther AU - Via E AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2331-3232 AD - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Research Group, Institut de Recerca Sant Joan de Deu, Santa Rosa 39-57, 08950 Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain. AD - Department of Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Hospital Sant Joan de Deu, Passeig Sant Joan de Deu, 2, 08950 Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain. FAU - Contreras-Rodriguez, Oren AU - Contreras-Rodriguez O AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8922-8084 AD - Medical Imaging, Girona Biomedical Research Institute (IdIBGi), Parc Hospitalari Marti i Julia-Edifici M2, Salt, 17190 Girona, Spain. AD - Health Institute Carlos III (ISCIII) and CIBERSAM, 28029 Madrid, Spain. AD - Department of Psychiatry and Legal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain. LA - eng GR - PI22/00655/Instituto de Salud Carlos III/ GR - PI22/00645/Instituto de Salud Carlos III/ GR - proyectos intramurales/Centro de Investigacion Biomedica en Red de Salud Mental/ GR - Miguel Servet (CP20/00165)/Instituto de Salud Carlos III/ PT - Journal Article PT - Review DEP - 20230630 PL - Switzerland TA - Nutrients JT - Nutrients JID - 101521595 SB - IM MH - Humans MH - Adolescent MH - Child MH - *Binge-Eating Disorder/psychology MH - Food, Processed MH - *Bulimia/complications MH - Brain/diagnostic imaging MH - Neuroimaging PMC - PMC10347198 OTO - NOTNLM OT - MRI OT - adolescents OT - binge eating OT - children OT - emotional eating OT - inhibition OT - reward OT - ultra-processed food COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest. EDAT- 2023/07/14 13:06 MHDA- 2023/07/17 06:42 PMCR- 2023/06/30 CRDT- 2023/07/14 01:22 PHST- 2023/05/08 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/06/12 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2023/06/28 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2023/07/17 06:42 [medline] PHST- 2023/07/14 13:06 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/07/14 01:22 [entrez] PHST- 2023/06/30 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - nu15132994 [pii] AID - nutrients-15-02994 [pii] AID - 10.3390/nu15132994 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Nutrients. 2023 Jun 30;15(13):2994. doi: 10.3390/nu15132994.