Exposure to appetitive food stimuli markedly activates the human brain

By Gene-Jack Wang, Nora D. Volkow, Frank Telang, Millard Jayne, James M. Swanson, Manlong Rao, Wei Zhu, Christopher T. Wong, N. Pappas, A. Geliebter and 1 more. NeuroImage, 2004

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Sensory Systems

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‘Liking’ and ‘wanting’ food rewards: Brain substrates and roles in eating disorders (2009, background): “pallidum; mesolimbic dopamine projections and even deep brainstem sites [8,11,24–37].”
Differential activation of the dorsal striatum by high-calorie visual food stimuli in obese individuals (2007, background): “…in the normalweight population (Small et al., 1999; Tataranni et al., 1999; Gordon et al., 2000; LaBar et al., 2001; Killgore et al., 2003; Hinton et al., 2004; Wang et al., 2004a; St-Onge et al., 2005), the neural systems regulating eating behavior in obese individuals remain poorly understood.”
Neural correlates of social and nonsocial emotions: An fMRI study (2006, neutral): “Our participants were not required to fast prior to this study, which may have diminished the motivational salience of the pizza scenes (Critchley and Rolls, 1996; Wang et al., 2004), and no odor or sight of real pizza was presented here.”
Widespread reward-system activation in obese women in response to pictures of high-calorie foods (2008, positive): “…et al., 2003; Killgore and Yurgelun-Todd, 2005; Kinomura et al., 1994; Kringelbach at al., 2003; LaBar et al., 2001; O'Doherty et al., 2002; Porubska et al., 2006; Rothemund et al., 2007; Simmons et al., 2005; Small et al., 1999, 2001; St-Onge et al., 2005; Uher et al., 2006; Wang et al., 2004a).”
Individual Differences in Reward Drive Predict Neural Responses to Images of Food (2006, background): “…components of this reward network (LaBar et al., 2001; Morris and Dolan, 2001; Gottfried et al., 2002; O'Doherty et al., 2002; Killgore et al., 2003; Wang et al., 2004), consistent with the notion that such cues can acquire motivating and hedonic properties themselves (Cardinal et al., 2002).”
Pro v Con Reviews: Is Food Addictive? (2012, background): “PET studies with FDG to measure brain glucose metabolism in normal-weight individuals reported that exposure to food cues increased metabolic activity in OFC, which was associated with the desire for the food (117).”
Images of desire: food-craving activation during fMRI (2004, positive): “…(LaBar et al., 2001), parahippocampal gyrus (LaBar et al., 2001; Small et al., 2001), anterior fusiform gyrus (LaBar et al., 2001), insula (Gordon et al., 2000; Small et al., 2001; Wang et al., 2004), striatum (Small et al., 2001; Volkow et al., 2002a,b), and cingulate (Small et al., 2001).”
The Representation of Information About Taste and Odor in the Orbitofrontal Cortex (2010, background): “Similarly, the orbitofrontal cortex and connected areas were also found to be activated after presentation of food stimuli to food-deprived subjects (Wang et al. 2004).”
Reward Mechanisms in Obesity: New Insights and Future Directions (2011, background): “These findings highlight just how intensely macronutrients in palatable food can stimulate brain reward systems independent of their caloric value (Wang et al., 2004a, 2004b) and how high the motivation to consume palatable food can be even in the absence of homeostatic energy requirements.”
The tempted brain eats: pleasure and desire circuits in obesity and eating disorders. (2010, positive): “Human dopamine release in dorsal striatum accompanies craving elicited by viewing food or drug cues (in some studies, more strongly correlated than in ventral striatum) (Volkow et al., 2002; Volkow et al., 2008; Wang et al., 2004a).”