Basolateral amygdala response to food cues in the absence of hunger is associated with weight gain susceptibility

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 20, 2015, Pages 7964-7976

  Sun, Xue ^a,c   Kroemer, Nils B ^a,c,d   Veldhuizen, Maria G ^a,c   Babbs, Amanda E ^c   De Araujo, Ivan E ^a,c   Gitelman, Darren R ^c,e,f,g   Sherwin, Robert S ^a   Sinha, Rajita ^a   Small, Dana M ^a,b,c,h  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

^d DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^e ADVOCATE LUTHERAN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^g NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Feeding; FMRI; Metabolism; Obesity; Satiety; TaqIA

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BOLD SIGNAL; CAUDATE NUCLEUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOOD INTAKE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUNGER; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OLFACTOMETRY; OLFACTORY DISCRIMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; SENSORY STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WEIGHT CHANGE; WEIGHT GAIN; ADOLESCENT; ALLELE; AMYGDALA; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SATIETY;

DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DRD2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLELES; AMYGDALA; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNGER; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; SATIATION; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 84929698429     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3884-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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