Brain PET imaging in obesity and food addiction: Current evidence and hypothesis

Obesity Facts

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 155-164

  Iozzo, Patricia ^a   Guiducci, Letizia ^a   Guzzardi, Maria Angela ^a   Pagotto, Uberto ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

18F FDG; 18F fluorodeoxyglucose; Cerebral; Drug addiction; Food addiction; Obesity; PET

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GLUCAGON LIKE PEPTIDE 1;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; BLOOD FLOW; BODY MASS; BRAIN METABOLISM; DRUG ABUSE; ENERGY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FOOD ADDICTION; FOOD INTAKE; GLUCOSE BRAIN LEVEL; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HUMAN; HUNGER; HYPOTHALAMUS; INSULA; OBESITY; ODOR; ORBITAL CORTEX; PALATABILITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PLEASURE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; REWARD; SATIETY; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; TASTE; THALAMUS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADDICTION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPLICATION; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; HYPERPHAGIA; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EATING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; HUMANS; HYPERPHAGIA; OBESITY; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84861859002     PISSN: 16624025     EISSN: 16624033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000338328     Document Type: Review

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