Kristina M. Rapuano

TL;DR: Using a data-driven Hidden Markov Model (HMM) of fMRI data, the authors discover a more complex set of neural activity states underlying the conventional stages of non-REM sleep.

TL;DR: How the brain's dynamical exploration of resting-state networks is rapidly modulated by intravenous infusion of psilocybin is characterized and one of the first attempts at bridging molecular pharmacodynamics and whole-brain network dynamics is represented.

TL;DR: This study has shown that the response of the taste-sensitive region of the caudal, but not rostral, insula to food images was directly related to the body's homeostatic state as indexed by levels of peripheral glucose.

TL;DR: It is shown that children genetically at risk for obesity exhibit stronger reward-related responses to real-world food cues in the nucleus accumbens, a brain area canonically associated with reward processing, which may contribute to unhealthy eating behaviors later in life.

TL;DR: Interestingly, this reward-related activity to food commercials was accompanied by the additional recruitment of mouth-specific somatosensory-motor cortices-a finding that suggests the intriguing possibility that higher-adiposity adolescents mentally simulate eating behaviors and offers a potential neural mechanism for the formation and reinforcement of unhealthy eating habits that may hamper an individual's ability lose weight later in life.