Food and drug cues activate similar brain regions: A meta-analysis of functional MRI studies

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 317-324

  Tang, D W ^a   Fellows, L K ^a   Small, D M ^b   Dagher, A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; FMRI; Food; Meta analysis; PET; Reward; Smoking

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CORPUS STRIATUM; FOOD; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; INSULA; LEARNING; MEMORY; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE TEMPORAL GYRUS; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL NETWORK; ORBITAL CORTEX; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THALAMUS; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CUES; FOOD; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PUBMED; SMOKING;

EID: 84860432404     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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