Food cue reactivity in food addiction: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

This 2017 review provides a summary of the developments on the addictive potential of palatable foods, including evidence that maternal exposure to these foods may be capable of provoking neurobehavioral alterations in the offspring. Wiss et al. (2017) state that overconsumption may lead to an override of the homeostasis and thus result in hedonic eating, […]

The primary natural reinforcer that influences eating decisions is food. The brain receives internal sensory information about nutritional value from the gut through the vagus nerve; nevertheless, little is known about the cellular and molecular underpinnings of reward circuits unique to particular macronutrients. In this study by McDougle et al. (2024), the authors track calcium […]