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Basolateral amygdala response to food cues in the absence of hunger is associated with weight gain susceptibility.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 20 May 2015
Sun Xue, Kroemer Nils B, Veldhuizen Maria G, Babbs Amanda E, de Araujo Ivan E, Gitelman Darren R, Sherwin Robert S, Sinha Rajita, Small Dana M
Abstract excerpt
In rodents, food-predictive cues elicit eating in the absence of hunger (Weingarten, 1983). This behavior is disrupted by the disconnection of amygdala pathways to the lateral hypothalamus (Petrovich et al., 2002). Whether this circuit contributes to long-term weight gain is unknown. Using fMRI in 32 healthy individuals, we demonstrate here that the amygdala response to the taste of a milkshake when sated but not...
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