Journal
FRONTIERS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY
Volume 33, Issue 2, Pages 127-139Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.yfrne.2012.01.002
Keywords
Obesity; Addiction; Craving; Plasticity; Dietary fat; Sugar
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- Swedish Research Council
- Novo Nordisk Foundation
- Swedish Brain Research Foundation
- Swedish Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences
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Food reward, not hunger, is the main driving force behind eating in the modern obesogenic environment. Palatable foods, generally calorie-dense and rich in sugar/fat, are thus readily overconsumed despite the resulting health consequences. Important advances have been made to explain mechanisms underlying excessive consumption as an immediate response to presentation of rewarding tastants. However, our understanding of long-term neural adaptations to food reward that oftentimes persist during even a prolonged absence of palatable food and contribute to the reinstatement of compulsive overeating of high-fat high-sugar diets, is much more limited. Here we discuss the evidence from animal and human studies for neural and molecular adaptations in both homeostatic and non-homeostatic appetite regulation that may underlie the formation of a feed-forward system, sensitive to palatable food and propelling the individual from a basic preference for palatable diets to food craving and compulsive, addiction-like eating behavior. (C) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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