articleJournal of Abnormal PsychologyNov 1, 2008GREEN OA

Relation of reward from food intake and anticipated food intake to obesity: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study.

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Abstract

The authors tested the hypothesis that obese individuals experience greater reward from food consumption (consummatory food reward) and anticipated consumption (anticipatory food reward) than lean individuals using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with 33 adolescent girls (mean age = 15.7, SD = 0.9). Obese relative to lean adolescent girls showed greater activation bilaterally in the gustatory cortex (anterior and mid insula, frontal operculum) and in somatosensory regions (parietal operculum and Rolandic operculum) in response to anticipated intake of chocolate milkshake (vs. a tasteless solution) and to actual consumption of milkshake (vs. a tasteless solution); these brain regions encode the…

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Keywords
  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging
  • Psychology
  • Overeating
  • Somatosensory system
  • Orbitofrontal cortex
  • Insula
  • Anticipation (artificial intelligence)
  • Nucleus accumbens
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Zero hunger
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