Sentences with phrase «reward responses to foods»

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For some people, palatable foods invoke such a strong response in the brain's reward circuit — and so dramatically alter their biology — that willpower will rarely, if ever, be sufficient to resist eating those foods once they are around.

In some trials the volunteers had to press a button whenever they saw a smiling face; in other trials they were asked to resist the happy faces and instead respond to the calm ones, even though the sight of a happy face summons up the same reward - seeking responses in the brain as the sight of a dollar sign or the prospect of tasty food.

This causes them to eat more to get the same pleasure from their food, which in turn reduces the reward response still further.

Some of these, based on previous studies of knockout mice, seem to play a role in cognition and behavior, including fear responses and the ability to learn new behaviors when given food rewards.

This brain region plays a crucial role in linking the need or desire for a given reward — food, sex, etc. — with the motor response to actually obtain that reward.

Instead we often use these food types as a treat or a reward, or even as a response to ease pain if children are upset.

«The interesting thing about this finding is that if the same thing happens in humans, eating junk food may change our responses to signals associated with food rewards,» says UNSW Professor Morris.

Overall, they found that adolescent girls with greater BMI showed increased reward region activation in response to food images.

If the dogs» response to faces was learned — by associating a human face with food, for example — you would expect to see a response in the reward system of their brains, but that was not the case, Berns says.

The most primitive part of the brain — the same reward pathway activated by food and sex — lights up in response to altruistic giving.

The neural response to food and monetary reward was measured in 162 adolescents.

His lab will next investigate how reduced - carbohydrate and reduced - fat diets affect the brain's reward circuitry, as well as its response to food stimuli.

Differential effects of fructose versus glucose on brain and appetitive responses to food cues and decisions for food rewards.

Following an initial period of instrumental training, BAC WT and BAC MT mice were tested for their ability to discriminate 2 complex visual stimuli (discrimination phase), where nosepokes to the correct touchscreen stimulus were rewarded by delivery of a sweetened 14 mg food pellet reward, and nosepokes to the incorrect touchscreen stimulus resulted in a brief blackout period where the screens became inoperative, followed by correction trials until the correct response was made.

One strain of mouse, C57BL / 6J will seek the reward over and over, to the exclusion of food and sleep, another more slowly acquires the response, and may not continue to press the lever if the dose of drug is lowered, or the drug is no longer administered.

Other research has shown that when dieters are offered rewards like food, they usually show a stronger brain response after they've eaten --» which suggests that they're still kind of motivated to eat even once they're nutritionally full,» Ely says.

When we consume hyper - palatable foods they light up a series of mechanisms in our brain collectively referred to as «the reward response system» that make us want to consume more of said food.

Ghrelin works by activating the brain's reward response to highly addictive sweet, fatty foods, making you crave them incessantly.

Paul, I ran across this blog entry while trying to read more about Guyenet in response to Gary's latest post, where he once again criticises the food - reward / palatibility theory.

One obvious interpretation is that overweight individuals are hungrier than lean individuals, and so they have a greater response to any food in their reward centers.

These images triggered the appetite and reward centers in the brain, and these neural and behavioral responses to high - calorie food stimuli may promote eating.

Although much of the literature has focused on dietary fat and sugar as key stimulants of food reward [22, 23], dietary protein has also been speculated to elicit similar reward responses [19].

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.

In general, dopamine is secreted in response to tasting highly palatable foods and evokes feelings of enhanced food reward, pleasure, and well - being [19 — 21].

Once you reach your goal, continue to give praise for every correct response, but begin to provide the food reward on a more intermittent random basis.

Phasing out food lures is a simple matter — just put them in your pocket to be used as rewards for above - average responses.

Moreover, the individual differences in the caudate responses indicate the potentially higher value of social than food reward for some dogs and may help to explain the apparent efficacy of social interaction in dog training.

When the response to the command is consistent, he continues to use the clicker for success but begins to vary the food rewards.

Maternal BE predicted use of more nonresponsive feeding practices (e.g. Emotion Regulation, Restriction for Health, Pressure to Eat, and Food as Reward), indirectly through more Distress responses to children's negative emotions.