Esther Aarts

The paper uses a supervised method to integrate gut microbiota and brain network data, identifying a multimodal component linked to food valuation and choice in a healthy population.

This study shows that low-grade inflammation in obesity reduces effortful food choices by increasing aversion to effort and altering dmPFC processing.

This study investigates the effect of colon-delivered multivitamins on neurocognitive outcomes in older adults, finding increased fMRI responses in specific brain regions but no significant changes in SCFA levels or WM performance.

This study uses breathomics to link exhaled metabolites with executive functioning in children, finding associations between VOCs and cognitive performance.

The paper investigates whether fatigue and depressive mood after COVID-19 are associated with altered decision-making, finding that post-COVID fatigue reduces reward sensitivity.

This study examines the impact of an 8-week mindful eating intervention on neural reward anticipation responses in striatum and midbrain, finding reduced midbrain responses but no effect on striatum or eating behavior.

The paper investigates how acute systemic inflammation affects mental effort allocation and decision-making, finding reduced acceptance of medium-effort tasks with preserved accuracy.

The paper uses LICA to identify multivariate associations between gut microbiota and brain network connectivity in healthy females, finding specific microbial genera linked to brain network strength.

The study replicates a previous finding that reward effects on cognitive control depend on dopamine synthesis capacity but fails to find a correlation in a larger sample using a different radiotracer.

This study shows distraction reduces goal-directed neural responses for food rewards in the right inferior frontal gyrus, correlating with increased button presses after satiation.

This study investigates how distraction affects taste-related neural processing and its link to food intake, finding that distraction weakens connectivity between taste regions and predicts increased eating.

This study investigates the causal effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on striatal processing of motivation, cognition, and action by targeting different frontal brain regions.

This study investigates the effects of a multispecies probiotic on neurocognition in healthy volunteers, finding it improves working memory under stress but not emotion regulation or cognitive control.

This study shows that food labels influence implicit motivation and neural responses to drinks, even when the drinks are objectively identical.

This study finds that orexin-deficient narcolepsy patients show enhanced ventral medial prefrontal cortex responses to food words, which predicts increased snack intake.