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Mar 14, 2024 · Eating a diet high in sugar, salt, or carbohydrates triggers the release of dopamine in our brains. The more dopamine that is released, the greater the pleasure. Repeatedly eating high amounts of...
Jul 7, 2009 · What brain reward systems mediate motivational ‘wanting’ and hedonic ‘liking’ for food rewards? And what roles do those systems play in eating disorders?
- Kent C. Berridge
- 10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.02.044
- 2009
- 2009/07/07
In humans, brain-imaging studies have reported activation of the hippocampus with food craving, a state of hunger, the response to food-conditioned cues and to food tasting .
Dec 1, 2020 · Findings have revealed a distributed network of brain hedonic ‘hotspots’ that can amplify hedonic impact or ‘liking’ for food rewards. These ‘liking’ mechanisms differ from larger mesocorticolimbic circuitry that generates incentive salience or ‘wanting’ as motivation to eat.
- Ileana Morales, Kent C. Berridge
- 2020
Aug 21, 2020 · Food reward is underpinned by complex brain biology, including the endogenous opioid system and the endo-cannabinoid system, both of which have roles in the "liking" and "wanting" of food (such...
Nov 12, 2020 · The present study sought to investigate the associations between food craving reactivity and regulation-related brain activity and measures of craving for and consumption of healthy and unhealthy foods in a community sample of middle-aged adults with higher BMIs, as well as how this brain activity at baseline predicted changes in food craving ...
Oct 7, 2016 · Being able to control food cravings is a determinant of success at adhering to an energy-restricted diet regimen. Increased understanding of the neurocircuitry of appetite regulation, especially reward-related eating behavior, has provided potential targets for therapeutic anti-obesity agents specifically directed at reward mechanisms.
