How motivational interviewing shifts food choices and craving-related brain responses to healthier options
Belina Rodrigues,
Iraj Khalid,
Solene Frileux
et al.
Abstract:Changing one's habits is challenging. Motivational interviewing (MI) has been proposed as a communication-based approach to overcome this challenge. Here, we tested how change and sustain talk suggestions, elicited by MI, influenced value-based dietary decision-making and responses of a recently developed neurobiological craving signature (NCS) in healthy female adults. We found that following change talk, compared to sustain talk, participants' food choices and activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex w… Show more
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