Samantha J. Brooks

TL;DR: Examination of brain activation after sleep and sleep deprivation in response to images of food provides evidence that acute sleep loss enhances hedonic stimulus processing in the brain underlying the drive to consume food, independent of plasma glucose levels.

TL;DR: Prefrontal cortex areas linked to cognitive evaluation processes, such as evaluation of rewarding stimuli, as well as explicit memory regions, appear most consistently activated in response to images of food in those who are obese.

TL;DR: People with ED have greater attentional bias to food stimuli than healthy controls (HC) and evidence for a memory and judgment bias in ED is limited.

TL;DR: Women with anorexia nervosa and BN activate top-down cognitive control in response to food images, yet women with BN have increased activation in reward and somatosensory regions, which might impinge on cognitive control over food consumption and binge eating.

TL;DR: Four Activation Likelihood Estimation meta-analyses of fMRI studies using subliminal paradigms are reviewed and discussed, finding a maximum of 9 out of 12 studies usingSubliminal presentation of faces contributing to activation of the amygdala, and also a significantly high number of studies reporting activation in the bilateral anterior cingulate, bilateral insular cortex, hippocampus and primary visual cortex.