The brain's reward system is crucial to understand obesity in modern society, as increased
neural responsivity to reward can fuel the unhealthy food choices that are driving the …

Background Obesity has been characterized by alterations in brain structure and function
associated with emotion processing and regulation. Particularly, aberrations in food‐related …

The anticipation of the pleasure derived from food intake drives the motivation to eat, and
hence facilitate overconsumption of food, which ultimately results in obesity. Brain imaging …

Objectives: Obesity is associated with hyperactivation of the reward system for high-calorie
(HC) versus low-calorie (LC) food cues, which encourages unhealthy food selection and …

Overvaluation of palatable food is a primary driver of obesity, and is associated with brain
regions of the reward system. However, it remains unclear if this network is specialized in …

Objective Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of obesity have revealed
key roles for reward‐related and inhibitory control–related activity in response to food cues …

Introduction Growing researches have shown that obese/overweight and healthy weight
individuals exhibit different neural responses to food-related stimuli. Accordingly …

It remains unknown whether obese individuals with more components of the metabolic
syndrome and/or prediabetes demonstrate altered activation of brain centers in response to …

Behavioral studies have suggested that food cues have stronger motivating effects in obese
than in normal-weight individuals, which may be a risk factor underlying obesity. Previous …

Objectives: Food craving is a driving force for overeating and obesity. However, the
relationship between brain mechanisms involved in its regulation and weight status is still an …