Higher reported saturated fat and refined sugar intake is associated with reduced hippocampal-dependent memory and sensitivity to interoceptive signals

This 2020 study suggests a new form of reinforcement learning and motivation that involves the balancing of cue-induced behavioral excitation with behavioral inhibition. While food- and drug-related environmental cues can make an individual recall memory of food and drug reinforcers, this proposed mechanism suppresses the ability of these cues to stimulate appetitive behavior. But when […]

Several drivers of sedentary behavior and overeating are implicated in the pathology of obesity, a metabolic pandemic related to several chronic and serious diseases across the world. Save for our understanding of genetic conditions related to obesity, the evidence regarding these important drivers remains insufficient. In this study by Furlan et al. (2022), the authors […]