Humans and animals such as rats and mice tend to overconsume calorie-dense foods, a
phenomenon that likely contributes to obesity. One often-advanced explanation for why we …

Although food intake is necessary to provide energy for all bodily activities, considering food
intake as a motivated behavior is complex. Rather than being a simple unconditioned reflex …

Animals use current, past, and projected future states of the organism and the world in a
finely tuned system to control ingestion. They must not only deal effectively with current …

The propensity to indulge in unhealthy eating and overconsumption of palatable food is a
crucial determinant in the rising prevalence of obesity in today's society. The tendency to …

The ability to resist the urge to eat requires the proper functioning of neuronal circuits
involved in top-down control to oppose the conditioned responses that predict reward from …

It is becoming clearer how neurobiological mechanisms generate 'liking'and
'wanting'components of food reward. Mesocorticolimbic mechanisms that enhance …

Obesity and other eating disorders are marked by dysregulations to brain metabolic,
hedonic, motivational, and sensory systems that control food intake. Classic approaches in …

This article summarizes presentations from “Neurocognition: The Food–Brain Connection”
symposium held at the ASN Scientific Sessions and Annual Meeting at Experimental Biology …

BEHAVIOR AND PSYCHOLOGY and are dissociable under several circumstances. For
example, drug-addicted individuals report a greater desire to consume a drug over time …

Overconsumption of high caloric food plays an important role in the etiology of obesity.
Several factors drive such hedonic feeding. High caloric food is often palatable. In addition …