About the Authors

Salomé Tárrega

Contributed equally to this work with: Salomé Tárrega, Ana B. Fagundo

Affiliation Departament de Psicobiologia i Metodologia de les Ciències de la Salut, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Ana B. Fagundo

Contributed equally to this work with: Salomé Tárrega, Ana B. Fagundo

Affiliations Ciber Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Department of Psychiatry, Bellvitge University Hospital-IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain

Susana Jiménez-Murcia

Affiliations Ciber Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Department of Psychiatry, Bellvitge University Hospital-IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain, Clinical Sciences Department, School of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Roser Granero

Affiliations Departament de Psicobiologia i Metodologia de les Ciències de la Salut, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, Ciber Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Cristina Giner-Bartolomé

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Bellvitge University Hospital-IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain

Laura Forcano

Affiliations Ciber Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Department of Psychiatry, Bellvitge University Hospital-IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain

Isabel Sánchez

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Bellvitge University Hospital-IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain

Juan José Santamaría

Affiliations Ciber Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Department of Psychiatry, Bellvitge University Hospital-IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain

Maher Ben-Moussa

Affiliation Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann

Affiliation Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Dimitri Konstantas

Affiliation Faculty of Social Sciences and Economics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Mikkel Lucas

Affiliation Serious Game Interactive (SGI), Copenhagen, Denmark

Jeppe Nielsen

Affiliation Serious Game Interactive (SGI), Copenhagen, Denmark

Richard G. A. Bults

Affiliation MobiHealth B.V., Enschede, The Netherlands

Tony Lam

Affiliation NetUnion, Lausanne, Switzerland

Theodoros Kostoulas

Affiliation Wire Communications Laboratory, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

Nikos Fakotakis

Affiliation Wire Communications Laboratory, University of Patras, Patras, Greece

Nadine Riesco

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Bellvitge University Hospital-IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain

Ines Wolz

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Bellvitge University Hospital-IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain

Josep Comín-Colet

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques, Barcelona, Spain

Valentina Cardi

Affiliation Eating Disorders Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, United Kingdom

Janet Treasure

Affiliation Eating Disorders Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College, London, United Kingdom

José Antonio Fernández-Formoso

Affiliation CIBER, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

José Manuel Menchón

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, Bellvitge University Hospital-IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain, Clinical Sciences Department, School of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, CIBER Salud Mental (CIBERSAM), Instituto Salud Carlos III, Barcelona, Spain

Fernando Fernández-Aranda

ffernandez@bellvitgehospital.cat

Affiliations Ciber Fisiopatologia Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERObn), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain, Department of Psychiatry, Bellvitge University Hospital-IDIBELL, Barcelona, Spain, Clinical Sciences Department, School of Medicine, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Competing Interests

Research was funded by the EU and partially funded by Spanish National Institute of Health (Instituto Salud Carlos III) and these agencies have no influence in the results of the study. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ST ABF SJM RG CGB LF FFA. Performed the experiments: CGB IS JJS NR. Analyzed the data: ST RG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MBM NMT DK ML JN RGAB TL TK NF JCC JAFF. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: ST ABF SJM RG CGB LF IW VC JT JMM FFA.