Where is the comfort in comfort foods? Mechanisms linking fat signaling, reward, and emotion

Does the gut-brain axis control anticipatory food reward? Novel insights from bariatric surgery

(2013) Lukas Van Oudenhove   GUT

The nature of feelings: evolutionary and neurobiological origins

(2013) Antonio Damasio et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Chronic stress exposure may affect the brain's response to high calorie food cues and predispose to obesogenic eating habits

(2013) Matthew S. Tryon et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Dopamine and Food Addiction: Lexicon Badly Needed

(2012) John D. Salamone et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Gustatory perception alterations in obesity: An fMRI study

(2012) Csaba Szalay et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Functional neuroimaging demonstrates that ghrelin inhibits the central nervous system response to ingested lipid

(2012) Richard B Jones et al.   GUT

Are Free Fatty Acids Effective Taste Stimuli in Humans?

(2012) Robin M. Tucker et al.   JOURNAL OF FOOD SCIENCE

Ghrelin signalling and obesity: At the interface of stress, mood and food reward

(2012) Harriët Schellekens et al.   PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS

Taste, olfactory and food texture reward processing in the brain and the control of appetite

(2012) Edmund T. Rolls   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NUTRITION SOCIETY

An fMRI study of obesity, food reward, and perceived caloric density. Does a low-fat label make food less appealing?

(2011) Janet Ng et al.   APPETITE

“You Say it's Liking, I Say it's Wanting …”. On the difficulty of disentangling food reward in man

(2011) Remco C. Havermans   APPETITE

Greater corticolimbic activation to high-calorie food cues after eating in obese vs. normal-weight adults

(2011) Anastasia Dimitropoulos et al.   APPETITE

Can food be addictive? Public health and policy implications

(2011) Ashley N. Gearhardt et al.   ADDICTION

Food reward, hyperphagia, and obesity

(2011) Hans-Rudolf Berthoud et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

G Protein-Coupled Receptors in Human Fat Taste Perception

(2011) M. M. Galindo et al.   CHEMICAL SENSES

Metabolic and hedonic drives in the neural control of appetite: who is the boss?

(2011) Hans-Rudolf Berthoud   CURRENT OPINION IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Ghrelin mediates stress-induced food-reward behavior in mice

(2011) Jen-Chieh Chuang et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Fatty acid–induced gut-brain signaling attenuates neural and behavioral effects of sad emotion in humans

(2011) Lukas Van Oudenhove et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

Gut feelings: the emerging biology of gut–brain communication

(2011) Emeran A. Mayer   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Reward Mechanisms in Obesity: New Insights and Future Directions

(2011) Paul J. Kenny   NEURON

Enhanced Striatal Dopamine Release During Food Stimulation in Binge Eating Disorder

(2011) Gene-Jack Wang et al.   Obesity

Neuroimaging and obesity: current knowledge and future directions

(2011) S. Carnell et al.   Obesity Reviews

Sibutramine promotes amygdala activity under fasting conditions in obese women

(2011) Kerstin M. Oltmanns et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Value, pleasure and choice in the ventral prefrontal cortex

(2011) Fabian Grabenhorst et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Apical CD36 immunolocalization in human and porcine taste buds from circumvallate and foliate papillae

(2010) Peter J. Simons et al.   ACTA HISTOCHEMICA

Oral sensitivity to fatty acids, food consumption and BMI in human subjects

(2010) Jessica E. Stewart et al.   BRITISH JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Psychosocial Factors, Psychiatric Illness and Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders: A Historical Perspective

(2010) Lukas Van Oudenhove et al.   DIGESTION

Defining the Role of Cholecystokinin in the Lipid-Induced Human Brain Activation Matrix

(2010) Daniel J. Lassman et al.   GASTROENTEROLOGY

Taste, olfactory and food texture reward processing in the brain and obesity

(2010) E T Rolls   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Bowels control brain: gut hormones and obesity

(2010) Benjamin C. T. Field et al.   Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Energy Density, Palatability, and Satiety: Implications for Weight Control

(2010) Adam Drewnowski   NUTRITION REVIEWS

Reward, dopamine and the control of food intake: implications for obesity

(2010) Nora D. Volkow et al.   TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES

Is There a Fatty Acid Taste?

(2009) Richard D. Mattes   Annual Review of Nutrition

How the Brain Represents the Reward Value of Fat in the Mouth

(2009) Fabian Grabenhorst et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Female emotional eaters show abnormalities in consummatory and anticipatory food reward: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

(2009) Cara Bohon et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EATING DISORDERS

Appetite control and energy balance regulation in the modern world: reward-driven brain overrides repletion signals

(2009) H Zheng et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

The Reward Circuit: Linking Primate Anatomy and Human Imaging

(2009) Suzanne N Haber et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Neural Mechanisms Associated With Food Motivation in Obese and Healthy Weight Adults

(2009) Laura E. Martin et al.   Obesity

Relation of obesity to consummatory and anticipatory food reward

(2009) Eric Stice et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

‘Liking’ and ‘wanting’ food rewards: Brain substrates and roles in eating disorders

(2009) Kent C. Berridge   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

The Effects of Overfeeding on the Neuronal Response to Visual Food Cues in Thin and Reduced-Obese Individuals

(2009) Marc-Andre Cornier et al.   PLoS One

Habituation as a determinant of human food intake.

(2009) Leonard H. Epstein et al.   PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW

Systemic administration of ghrelin induces conditioned place preference and stimulates accumbal dopamine

(2008) Elisabet Jerlhag   ADDICTION BIOLOGY

Ghrelin Modulates Brain Activity in Areas that Control Appetitive Behavior

(2008) Saima Malik et al.   Cell Metabolism

Selective attention to affective value alters how the brain processes taste stimuli

(2008) Fabian Grabenhorst et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Widespread reward-system activation in obese women in response to pictures of high-calorie foods

(2008) Luke E. Stoeckel et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Functional grouping and cortical–subcortical interactions in emotion: A meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies

(2008) Hedy Kober et al.   NEUROIMAGE

The orbitofrontal cortex and beyond: From affect to decision-making

(2008) Edmund T. Rolls et al.   PROGRESS IN NEUROBIOLOGY

Affective neuroscience of pleasure: reward in humans and animals

(2008) Kent C. Berridge et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Relation Between Obesity and Blunted Striatal Response to Food Is Moderated by TaqIA A1 Allele

(2008) E. Stice et al.   SCIENCE

The Brain, Appetite, and Obesity

(2007) Hans-Rudolf Berthoud et al.   Annual Review of Psychology