Neuroimaging is becoming increasingly common in obesity research as investigators try to
understand the neurological underpinnings of appetite and body weight in humans. Positron …

Emerging evidence from recent neuroimaging studies suggests that specific food-related
behaviors contribute to the development of obesity. The aim of this review was to report the …

Food selection is primarily guided by the visual system. Multiple functional neuro-imaging
studies have examined the brain responses to visual food stimuli. However, the results of …

Theories of eating regulation often attribute overweight to a malfunction of homeostatic
regulation of body weight. With the goal conflict model of eating, we present a new …

We propose that a core eating network and its modulations account for much of what is
currently known about the neural activity underlying a wide range of eating phenomena in …

Background Previous fMRI studies show that women with eating disorders (ED) have
differential neural activation to viewing food images. However, despite clinical differences in …

The easy availability of food has caused a shift from eating for survival to hedonic eating.
Women, compared to men, have shown to respond differently to food cues in the …

Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are severe eating disorders whose etiopathogenesis
is still unknown. Clinical features suggest that eating disorders may develop as reward …

The aim of this paper is to describe the patterns of functional magnetic resonance imaging
activation produced by visual food stimuli in healthy participants, as well as in those with …

Neuroimaging studies have started to explore the role of food characteristics (eg, calorie-
content) and psychological factors (eg, restrained eating, craving) for the human appetitive …