Over and over, neuroimaging studies find correlations between patterns of
response to food cues and BMI or weight gain.
«Imaging the effects of hunger on the brain's
response to food cues.»
We hope this new model that we've developed can be used to study the circuitry underpinning the brain's
responses to food cues in health and in obesity.»
A weight - loss drug dampened
the response to food cues in regions of the brain associated with attention and emotion, leading to decreases in caloric intake, weight and body mass index (BMI), a team led by scientists at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) reported.
Differential effects of fructose versus glucose on brain and appetitive
responses to food cues and decisions for food rewards.
Currently, she is using imaging techniques to explore the effects of glucose on brain
responses to food cues in children who are at - risk for developing obesity and / or diabetes later in life.
Some people eat more in
response to these food cues than others.
The food responsiveness subscale measures the extent to which children eat in
response to food cues rather than satiety (e.g. «Even if my child is full up s / he finds room to eat his / her favourite food»).
Not exact matches
«By giving yourself permission
to eat
foods that you enjoy, and in
response to your body's
cues of appetite, hunger, fullness, and satiety, you will be able
to ebb and flow with your body and provide supportive nourishment as your baby grows,» she notes.
Conversely, ghrelin increases an animal's sensitivity
to food cues by increasing dopamine
responses in the mesolimbic system, Mitchell Roitman, a behavioral neuroscientist at the University of Illinois in Chicago, and his colleagues reported in March in the Journal of Neurochemistry.
Scientists examined the behaviour of dogs in
response to emotionally significant images and sounds, and found that mouth licking in domestic dogs is not simply a
response to food or uncertainty, but appears
to be used as a signal
to try
to communicate with humans in
response to visual
cues of anger.
According
to Humphrey's picture, the Siberian hamster subconsciously acts on a
cue that it is summer because
food supplies
to sustain an immune
response are plentiful at that time of year.
Coelho JS, Jansen A, Roefs A, Nederkoorn C. Eating behavior in
response to food -
cue exposure: examining the
cue - reactivity and counteractive - control models.
Higher plasma glucose levels correlated with greater brain activity in executive control centers in the ACC and ventromedial PFC, whereas higher levels of plasma cortisol, but not other hormones, were correlated with greater activation in reward regions, such as the insula and putamen (P < 0.01, corrected), in
response to high - calorie
food cues.