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Enhanced incentive motivation in obesity-prone rats is mediated by NAc core CP-AMPARs.
Neuropharmacology - 15 Mar 2018
Derman Rifka C, Ferrario Carrie R
Abstract excerpt
Studies in humans suggest that stronger incentive motivational responses to Pavlovian food cues may drive over-consumption leading to and maintaining obesity, particularly in susceptible individuals. However, whether this enhanced incentive motivation emerges as a consequence of obesity or rather precedes obesity is unknown. Moreover, while human imaging studies have provided important information about...
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