Acute stress potentiates brain response to milkshake as a function of body weight and chronic stress

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

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Increased amygdala response and decreased influence of internal state on amygdala response to food in overweight compared to healthy weight individuals

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Prevalence and Trends in Obesity Among US Adults, 1999-2008

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Genetically Determined Differences in Brain Response to a Primary Food Reward

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Weight Gain Is Associated with Reduced Striatal Response to Palatable Food

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Reward circuitry responsivity to food predicts future increases in body mass: Moderating effects of DRD2 and DRD4

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Acute stress modulates genotype effects on amygdala processing in humans

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Psychosocial Stress and Change in Weight Among US Adults

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Annual Medical Spending Attributable To Obesity: Payer-And Service-Specific Estimates

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

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Acute stress and food-related reward activation in the brain during food choice during eating in the absence of hunger

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

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Modeling stress and drug craving in the laboratory: implications for addiction treatment development

(2008) Rajita Sinha   ADDICTION BIOLOGY

Ghrelin Modulates Brain Activity in Areas that Control Appetitive Behavior

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The Spatial Attention Network Interacts with Limbic and Monoaminergic Systems to Modulate Motivation-Induced Attention Shifts

(2008) A. Mohanty et al.   CEREBRAL CORTEX

Individual Differences in Stressor-Evoked Blood Pressure Reactivity Vary with Activation, Volume, and Functional Connectivity of the Amygdala

(2008) P. J. Gianaros et al.   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

Separable Substrates for Anticipatory and Consummatory Food Chemosensation

(2008) Dana M. Small et al.   NEURON

Acute Stress-related Changes in Eating in the Absence of Hunger

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

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