Regulating food craving: From mechanisms to interventions

Since dopamine in the central nervous system is associated with reward salience and food consumption, while the peripheral dopamine has a completely different role (sympathetic stress regulation, digestion and gastrointestinal motility), Mills et al. (2020) set out to find out whether there are associations between peripheral dopamine levels, depressive symptoms and problematic eating behaviors in […]

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 […]