Feed-forward mechanisms: Addiction-like behavioral and molecular adaptations in overeating

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Feed-forward mechanisms: Addiction-like behavioral and molecular adaptations in overeating

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Food reward, not hunger, is the main driving force behind eating in the modern obesogenic environment. Palatable foods, generally calorie-dense and rich in sugar/fat, are thus readily overconsumed despite the resulting health consequences. Important advances have been made to explain mechanisms underlying excessive consumption as an immediate response to presentation of rewarding tastants. However, our understanding of long-term neural adaptations to food reward that oftentimes persist during...

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2012

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Alsiö, Johan / Olszewski, Pawel K. / Levine, Allen S. / Schiöth, Helgi B.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10289/6433

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obesity / addiction / craving / plasticity / dietary fat / sugar

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