New Review Papers on Food Reward

As research on the role of reward/palatability in obesity continues to accelerate, interesting new papers are appearing weekly.� Here is a roundup of review papers I've encountered�in the last three months.� These range from somewhat technical to very technical, but I think they should be mostly accessible to people with a background in the biological sciences.�

Food and Drug Reward: Overlapping Circuits in Human Obesity and Addiction
Written by Dr. Nora D. Volkow and colleagues.� This paper describes�the similarities between the mechanisms of obesity and addiction, with a focus on human brain imaging studies.��Most researchers don't think obesity is an addiction per se, but the�mechanisms (e.g., brain areas important for reward)�do seem to overlap considerably.��This�paper is well composed and got a lot of media attention.� Dr. Volkow is the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a branch of the National Institutes of Health.� The NIH is the main source of biomedical research funding in the US, and also conducts its own research.

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This post was written by Stephan Guyenet for Whole Health Source.

Source: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/12/new-review-papers-on-food-reward.html

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