Obesity is a major public health problem. The increasing number of obese individuals in the
US adds urgency to the efforts to understand the mechanisms underlying pathological …

Obesity is typically associated with abnormal eating behaviors. Brain imaging studies in
humans implicate the involvement of dopamine (DA)-modulated circuits in pathologic eating …

The obesity epidemic is believed to be driven by a food environment that promotes
consumption of inexpensive, convenient, high-calorie, palatable foods. Individual …

Dopamine (DA) regulates emotional and motivational behavior through the mesolimbic
dopaminergic pathway. Changes in DA signaling in mesolimbic neurotransmission are …

Obesity results from an imbalance between energy intake and expenditure, and many
studies have aimed to determine why obese individuals continue to (over) consume food …

Obesity has reached epidemic prevalence, and much research has focused on homeostatic
and nonhomeostatic mechanisms underlying overconsumption of food. Mesocorticolimbic …

The drive for food is one of the most powerful of human and animal behaviors. Dopamine, a
neurotransmitter involved with motivation and reward, its believed to regulate food intake in …

Dopamine's role in inhibitory control is well recognized and its disruption may contribute to
behavioral disorders of discontrol such as obesity. However, the mechanism by which …

Introduction: The neurotransmitter dopamine is important in the regulation of food intake. It is
hypothesised that obese people experience less reward from food due to lower striatal …

Overeating in obese individuals shares similarities with the loss of control and compulsive
drug taking behavior observed in drug-addicted subjects. The mechanism of these …