The craving stops before you feel it: Neural correlates of chocolate craving during cue exposure with response prevention

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1589-1600

  Frankort, Astrid ^a   Roefs, Anne ^a   Siep, Nicolette ^a   Roebroeck, Alard ^a   Havermans, Remco ^a   Jansen, Anita ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain as predictor; Cue reactivity; FMRI; Food craving; Interoceptive awareness; Real food versus imagined taste

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BRAIN REGION; CACAO; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUE EXPOSURE WITH RESPONSE PREVENTION; EXTRASTRIATE BODY AREA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD CRAVING; FRONTAL EYE FIELD; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUSIFORM GYRUS; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; LINGUAL GYRUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; POSTERIOR CINGULATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SUPPLEMENTARY MOTOR AREA; ASSOCIATION; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EATING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HUNGER; NERVE TRACT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME; VISION; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; YOUNG ADULT;

SUGAR;

BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CACAO; CANDY; CRAVING; CUES; EATING; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNGER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NEURAL PATHWAYS; REWARD; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900820088     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht016     Document Type: Article

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