Central dopaminergic circuitry controlling food intake and reward: implications for the regulation of obesity

High-fat diet decreases tyrosine hydroxylase mRNA expression irrespective of obesity susceptibility in mice

(2009) Yulin Li et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Dopaminergic and serotoninergic deficiencies in young adult rats prenatally exposed to the bacterial lipopolysaccharide

(2009) Sabrina Wang et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH

Dissecting components of reward: ‘liking’, ‘wanting’, and learning

(2009) Kent C Berridge et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN PHARMACOLOGY

Prenatal Stress or High-Fat Diet Increases Susceptibility to Diet-Induced Obesity in Rat Offspring

(2009) K. L.K. Tamashiro et al.   DIABETES

Short- and long-term effects of maternal nicotine exposure during lactation on body adiposity, lipid profile, and thyroid function of rat offspring

(2009) E Oliveira et al.   JOURNAL OF ENDOCRINOLOGY

Sugar and Fat Bingeing Have Notable Differences in Addictive-like Behavior

(2009) Nicole M. Avena et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Homeostatic and Hedonic Signals Interact in the Regulation of Food Intake

(2009) Michael Lutter et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Dopamine and reward: The anhedonia hypothesis 30 years on

(2009) Roy A. Wise   NEUROTOXICITY RESEARCH

Relation of obesity to consummatory and anticipatory food reward

(2009) Eric Stice et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Maternal Obesity Induced by Diet in Rats Permanently Influences Central Processes Regulating Food Intake in Offspring

(2009) Shona L. Kirk et al.   PLoS One

The melanin-concentrating hormone system modulates cocaine reward

(2009) S. Chung et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Insulin acts at different CNS sites to decrease acute sucrose intake and sucrose self-administration in rats

(2008) Dianne P. Figlewicz et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Insulin, leptin, and food reward: update 2008

(2008) Dianne P. Figlewicz et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-REGULATORY INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Epigenetics and the nervous system

(2008) Mark F. Mehler   ANNALS OF NEUROLOGY

Dopamine Signaling in the Dorsal Striatum Is Essential for Motivated Behaviors

(2008) Richard D. Palmiter   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Exposure to elevated levels of dietary fat attenuates psychostimulant reward and mesolimbic dopamine turnover in the rat.

(2008) Jon F. Davis et al.   BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE

ΔFosB-Mediated Alterations in Dopamine Signaling Are Normalized by a Palatable High-Fat Diet

(2008) Sarah L. Teegarden et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Augmented D1 Dopamine Receptor Signaling and Immediate-Early Gene Induction in Adult Striatum After Prenatal Cocaine

(2008) Thomas F. Tropea et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Dysregulation of the Mesolimbic Dopamine System and Reward in MCH−/− Mice

(2008) Pavlos Pissios et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

The body politic: the relationship between stigma and obesity-associated disease

(2008) Peter Muennig   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Ghrelin in the CNS: From hunger to a rewarding and memorable meal?

(2008) Pawel K. Olszewski et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH REVIEWS

Ghrelin Modulates Brain Activity in Areas that Control Appetitive Behavior

(2008) Saima Malik et al.   Cell Metabolism

Hypocretin /orexin preferentially activates caudomedial ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons

(2008) Nicole M. Vittoz et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Prenatal restraint stress differentially modifies basal and stimulated dopamine and noradrenaline release in the nucleus accumbens shell: an ‘in vivo’ microdialysis study in adolescent and young adult rats

(2008) Alessandra Silvagni et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

A combined behavioral and morphological study on the effects of fetal asphyxia on the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system in adult rats

(2008) E. Strackx et al.   EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY

Evidence for defective mesolimbic dopamine exocytosis in obesity-prone rats

(2008) Brenda M. Geiger et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

High Body Mass Index for Age Among US Children and Adolescents, 2003-2006

(2008) Cynthia L. Ogden   JAMA-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Central Control of Body Weight and Appetite

(2008) Stephen C. Woods et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

Epidemiology of Obesity in the Western Hemisphere

(2008) Earl S. Ford et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

Prevention and Treatment of Pediatric Obesity: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline Based on Expert Opinion

(2008) Gilbert P. August et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

Altered expression of key dopaminergic regulatory proteins in the postnatal brain following perinatal n-3 fatty acid dietary deficiency

(2008) Faina Kuperstein et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROCHEMISTRY

Epigenetics in the Nervous System

(2008) Y. Jiang et al.   JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE

Prenatal imprinting of postnatal specific appetites and feeding behavior

(2008) Stylianos Nicolaïdis   METABOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL

Genome-wide association yields new sequence variants at seven loci that associate with measures of obesity

(2008) Gudmar Thorleifsson et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation

(2008) Cristen J Willer et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Systemic administration of ghrelin increases extracellular dopamine in the shell but not the core subdivision of the nucleus accumbens

(2008) Davide Quarta et al.   NEUROCHEMISTRY INTERNATIONAL

Low dopamine striatal D2 receptors are associated with prefrontal metabolism in obese subjects: Possible contributing factors

(2008) Nora D. Volkow et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Deficits in development of synaptic plasticity in rat dorsal striatum following prenatal and neonatal exposure to low-dose bisphenol A

(2008) R. Zhou et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

Effect of prenatal exposure to diesel exhaust on dopaminergic system in mice

(2008) Satoshi Yokota et al.   NEUROSCIENCE LETTERS

Novel functions of orexigenic hypothalamic peptides: From genes to behavior

(2008) Stephen C. Benoit et al.   NUTRITION

Neurobiology of Nutrition and Obesity

(2008) Christopher D. Morrison et al.   NUTRITION REVIEWS

Gene-environment interaction and obesity

(2008) Lu Qi et al.   NUTRITION REVIEWS

The Lifetime Medical Cost Burden of Overweight and Obesity: Implications for Obesity Prevention

(2008) Eric A. Finkelstein et al.   Obesity

Epigenetic Influences on Food Intake and Physical Activity Level: Review of Animal Studies

(2008) Barry E. Levin   Obesity

Genes Implicated in Serotonergic and Dopaminergic Functioning Predict BMI Categories

(2008) Bernard F. Fuemmeler et al.   Obesity

Central and Peripheral Regulation of Food Intake and Physical Activity: Pathways and Genes

(2008) Natalie R. Lenard et al.   Obesity

Considerations Regarding the Genetics of Obesity

(2008) Wendy K. Chung et al.   Obesity

Critical review of the World Health Organization's (WHO) 2007 report on ‘evidence of the long-term effects of breastfeeding: systematic reviews and meta-analysis’ with respect to obesity

(2008) M. B. Cope et al.   Obesity Reviews

Indirect costs of obesity: a review of the current literature

(2008) J. G. Trogdon et al.   Obesity Reviews

Epigenetics and obesity

(2008) Reinhard Stöger   PHARMACOGENOMICS

Overlapping neuronal circuits in addiction and obesity: evidence of systems pathology

(2008) N. D Volkow et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Opioid reward ‘liking’ and ‘wanting’ in the nucleus accumbens

(2008) Susana Peciña   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Interaction between genes and lifestyle factors on obesity

(2008) Amelia Marti et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NUTRITION SOCIETY

Affective neuroscience of pleasure: reward in humans and animals

(2008) Kent C. Berridge et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Brain circuits regulating energy homeostasis

(2008) Alfonso Abizaid et al.   REGULATORY PEPTIDES

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

(2008) E. Stice et al.   SCIENCE

Overview of human obesity and central mechanisms regulating energy homeostasis

(2008) V. E F Crowley   ANNALS OF CLINICAL BIOCHEMISTRY

Epigenetics and Complex Disease: From Etiology to New Therapeutics

(2007) Carolyn Ptak et al.   Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology

The Brain, Appetite, and Obesity

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

A DRD4/BDNF gene–gene interaction associated with maximum BMI in women with bulimia nervosa

(2007) Allan S. Kaplan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EATING DISORDERS

Hypothalamic substrates of metabolic imprinting

(2007) Richard B. Simerly   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Obesity is Associated with Genetic Variants That Alter Dopamine Availability

(2005) A. C. Need et al.   ANNALS OF HUMAN GENETICS