Article
Affective Pavlovian motivation is enhanced in obesity susceptible populations; implications for incentive motivation in obesity
2019-06-02
Abstract excerpt
Global obesity rates continue to rise, presenting a major challenge to human health. Efforts to uncover the drivers of this epidemic have highlighted the contribution of Pavlovian motivational processes to overeating. In humans, brain and behavioral reactivity to food related stimuli positively correlates with subsequent weight gain. In concordance with this, selectively bred obesity-prone rats exhibit stronger cu...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ad2c0ea7-1503-539f-8478-7c866297efd9
- DOI
- 10.1101/657833
