Personality predicts the brain's response to viewing appetizing foods: The neural basis of a risk factor for overeating

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 43-51

  Passamonti, Luca ^a,b   Rowe, James B ^a,c,d   Schwarzbauer, Christian ^a,c   Ewbank, Michael P ^a   Von Dem Hagen, Elisabeth ^a   Calder, Andrew J ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Cingulate cortex; Connectivity; Emotion; fMRI; Food; Striatum

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OVERNUTRITION; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISION;

ADULT; APPETITE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMANS; HYPERPHAGIA; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERSONALITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149397653     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4966-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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