Obesity and addiction: neurobiological overlaps

ND Volkow, GJ Wang, D Tomasi, RD Baler - Obesity reviews, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
addiction can also be used to understand why some obese individuals find it so difficult to
properly regulate … activity in brain regions that process palatability could make obese subjects …

NOW vs LATER brain circuits: implications for obesity and addiction

ND Volkow, RD Baler - Trends in neurosciences, 2015 - cell.com
… along these circuits contribute to diverse pathologies, including obesity and addiction. …
Similarly, the regulatory influence of neurotransmitter systems other than DA on the various …

Brain regulation of hunger and motivation: The case for integrating homeostatic and hedonic concepts and its implications for obesity and addiction

I Morales - Appetite, 2022 - Elsevier
Obesity and addiction are associated with profound alterations to both hedonic and homeostatic
brain … A subset of individuals with obesity may experience pathological cravings for food …

The addictive dimensionality of obesity

ND Volkow, GJ Wang, D Tomasi, RD Baler - Biological psychiatry, 2013 - Elsevier
… Both addiction and obesity reflect imbalances in the responses of the brain to rewarding
stimuli in … Thus, improper regulation by D2R-mediated DA signaling of these frontal regions in …

Overlapping neuronal circuits in addiction and obesity: evidence of systems pathology

ND Volkow, GJ Wang, JS Fowler… - … Transactions of the …, 2008 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… Model of brain circuits involved with addiction and obesity: reward/saliency motivation/drive,
memory/conditioning and inhibitory control/emotional regulations. Disrupted activity in brain

Food and drug reward: overlapping circuits in human obesity and addiction

ND Volkow, GJ Wang, JS Fowler, D Tomasi… - Brain imaging in …, 2012 - Springer
obese and drug-addicted individuals suffer from impairments in dopaminergic pathways that
regulate … on the role of dopamine in drug addiction and in obesity, and propose an updated …

Overlapping neural endophenotypes in addiction and obesity

A Michaud, U Vainik, I Garcia-Garcia… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
… -regulation processes (3–5). The goal of this review is to critically assess the putative overlaps
between addiction and obesity … impact of obesity and various types of addictions on brain

Obesity and brain addiction circuitry: implications for deep brain stimulation

A Taghva, JD Corrigan, AR Rezai - Neurosurgery, 2012 - journals.lww.com
brain underlies behaviors leading to obesity. Here, we review the existing data and related
neurocircuitry, as well as the scope of obesity … geared toward regulating these dysfunctional …

Stress as a common risk factor for obesity and addiction

R Sinha, AM Jastreboff - Biological psychiatry, 2013 - Elsevier
regulation of appetite, and energy homeostasis. Stress is a key risk factor in the development
of addiction and in addiction … Axial brain slices in the obese and lean groups of neural …

The brain, obesity and addiction: an EEG neuroimaging study

D De Ridder, P Manning, SL Leong, S Ross… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
… -addicted and non-addicted lean controls. We show that food addiction shares common
neural brain … centers in the brain play a pivotal role in body weight regulation, more recently …