Functional brain networks: Unique patterns with hedonic appetite and confidence to resist eating in older adults with obesity

The aim of this 2013 study was to identify the emotional and motivational processes that reinstate food intake after high-fat meals are removed from the diet, and also to determine the associated neuroadaptations tied to neurochemical and behavioural changes underlying dopaminergic function. This animal model study on adult male C57Bl6 mice involved a 6-week diet […]

This 2021 article points out that there have been mixed results on the effects of nonnutritive sweeteners (alternative to nutritive sweeteners that quench the desire for sweets while providing fewer calories) on appetite. It is unknown how sex and obesity correlate with the reward and appetitive responses to nonnutritive sweeteners (NNS). One of this study’s […]