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

01 May 2010-NeuroImage (Neuroimage)-Vol. 50, Iss: 4, pp 1618-1625
TL;DR: This novel prospective fMRI study indicates that responsivity of reward circuitry to food increases risk for future weight gain, but that genes that impact dopamine signaling capacity moderate the predictive effects, suggesting two qualitatively distinct pathways to unhealthy weight gain based on genetic risk.
About: This article is published in NeuroImage.The article was published on 2010-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 311 citations till now.
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TL;DR: Functional neuroimaging studies conducted in the past decade that have expanded the understanding of the involvement of the PFC in drug addiction are focused on.
Abstract: The loss of control over drug intake that occurs in addiction was initially believed to result from disruption of subcortical reward circuits. However, imaging studies in addictive behaviours have identified a key involvement of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) both through its regulation of limbic reward regions and its involvement in higher-order executive function (for example, self-control, salience attribution and awareness). This Review focuses on functional neuroimaging studies conducted in the past decade that have expanded our understanding of the involvement of the PFC in drug addiction. Disruption of the PFC in addiction underlies not only compulsive drug taking but also accounts for the disadvantageous behaviours that are associated with addiction and the erosion of free will.

2,008 citations

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TL;DR: This article proposes a heuristic for developing transdiagnostic models that can guide theorists in explicating how a trans Diagnostic risk factor results in both multifinality and divergent trajectories and illustrates this heuristic using research on rumination.
Abstract: Transdiagnostic models of psychopathology are increasingly prominent because they focus on fundamental processes underlying multiple disorders, help to explain comorbidity among disorders, and may lead to more effective assessment and treatment of disorders. Current transdiagnostic models, however, have difficulty simultaneously explaining the mechanisms by which a transdiagnostic risk factor leads to multiple disorders (i.e., multifinality) and why one individual with a particular transdiagnostic risk factor develops one set of symptoms while another with the same transdiagnostic risk factor develops another set of symptoms (i.e., divergent trajectories). In this article, we propose a heuristic for developing transdiagnostic models that can guide theorists in explicating how a transdiagnostic risk factor results in both multifinality and divergent trajectories. We also (a) describe different levels of transdiagnostic factors and their relative theoretical and clinical usefulness, (b) suggest the types of mechanisms by which factors at 1 level may be related to factors at other levels, and (c) suggest the types of moderating factors that may determine whether a transdiagnostic factor leads to certain specific disorders or symptoms and not others. We illustrate this heuristic using research on rumination, a process for which there is evidence it is a transdiagnostic risk factor.

646 citations

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24 Feb 2011-Neuron
TL;DR: Recent advances in the understanding of the brain circuitries that regulate hedonic aspects of feeding behavior will be reviewed and emerging evidence suggesting that obesity and drug addiction may share commonHedonic mechanisms will also be considered.

645 citations


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  • ...…fragment length polymorphism is downstream from the D2R gene (Neville et al., 2004), and individuals carrying the A1 allele of the polymorphism have between 30%–40% fewer striatal D2Rs compared with those not carrying the allele (Jönsson et al., 1999; Ritchie and Noble, 2003; Stice et al., 2010b)....

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  • ...…the magnitude of striatal activation in response to imagined eating of palatable food, as opposed to its actual consumption, was inversely correlated with weight gain over the following year in subjects with the A1 allele but positively correlated in non-A1 allele subjects (Stice et al., 2010b)....

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  • ...Moreover, women who gained weight over a 6 month period had a marked decline in striatal activity in response to palatable food during this time period compared with women who did not gain weight (Stice et al., 2010a)....

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  • ...These effects in rats are reminiscent of the decreased striatal activation in response to food reward described above in human subjects as they gained weight over a 6 month period (Stice et al., 2010a; see Figure 4)....

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  • ...As noted above, women who gained weight over a 6 month period had a marked decline in striatal activity in response to palatable food over this time period compared with women who did not gain weight (Stice et al., 2010a; Figure 4)....

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TL;DR: Functional magnetic resonance imaging is used to investigate neural activations during a food-specific go/no-go task in adolescent girls ranging from lean to obese and suggests that hypofunctioning of inhibitory control regions and increased response of food reward regions are related to elevated weight.

469 citations

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07 Jan 2015-Neuron
TL;DR: Findings in which initial brain measures are correlated with or predict future education, learning, and performance in children and adults; criminality; health-related behaviors; and responses to pharmacological or behavioral treatments are reviewed.

439 citations


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  • ...In one case, dopamine-related genetic variation interacted with blunted brain activation to correlate with elevated risk for future weight gain (Stice et al., 2010)....

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