Fuel not fun: Reinterpreting attenuated brain responses to reward in obesity

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 162, Issue , 2016, Pages 37-45

  Kroemer, Nils B ^a,b,c   Small, Dana M ^b,c,d  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anhedonia; Dorsal striatum; fMRI; Food reward; Reinforcement learning; Reward deficiency

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ANHEDONIA; DORSAL STRIATUM; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEARNING; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; OVERNUTRITION; PLEASURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; REVIEW; REWARD; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; ANTICIPATION; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS STRIATUM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FOOD; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS STRIATUM; FOOD; HUMANS; NEUROIMAGING; OBESITY; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 84964659796     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2016.04.020     Document Type: Review

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