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Reward, dopamine and the control of food intake: implications for obesity

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Imaging studies show that obese subjects might have impairments in dopaminergic pathways that regulate neuronal systems associated with reward sensitivity, conditioning and control, and it is postulated that this could also be a mechanism by which overeating and the resultant resistance to homoeostatic signals impairs the function of circuits involved in reward sensitivity.
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This article is published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences.The article was published on 2011-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1099 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Dopaminergic pathways & Overeating.

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Gut feelings: the emerging biology of gut–brain communication

TL;DR: A complex, bidirectional communication system that not only ensures the proper maintenance of gastrointestinal homeostasis and digestion but is likely to have multiple effects on affect, motivation and higher cognitive functions, including intuitive decision making is revealed.
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Synaptic plasticity and depression: new insights from stress and rapid-acting antidepressants

TL;DR: Treatment with new agents results in an improvement in mood ratings within hours of dosing patients who are resistant to typical antidepressants, and these new agents have also been shown to reverse the synaptic deficits caused by stress.
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Obesity and addiction: neurobiological overlaps.

TL;DR: For instance, this paper found that both obese and drug-addicted individuals suffer from impairments in dopaminergic pathways that regulate neuronal systems associated not only with reward sensitivity and incentive motivation, but also with conditioning, self-control, stress reactivity and interoceptive awareness.
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Food cue reactivity and craving predict eating and weight gain: a meta-analytic review.

TL;DR: The present findings suggest that food cue reactivity, cue‐induced craving and tonic craving systematically and prospectively predict food‐related outcomes.
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Food and drug reward: overlapping circuits in human obesity and addiction.

TL;DR: Results suggest that both obese and drug-addicted individuals suffer from impairments in dopaminergic pathways that regulate neuronal systems associated not only with reward sensitivity and incentive motivation, but also with conditioning, impulse control, stress reactivity, and interoceptive awareness.
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Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in the United States, 1999-2004

TL;DR: These estimates suggest that the increases in body weight are continuing in men and in children and adolescents while they may be leveling off in women; among women, no overall increases in the prevalence of obesity were observed.
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Prevalence and trends in obesity among US adults, 1999-2008.

TL;DR: The increases in the prevalence of obesity previously observed do not appear to be continuing at the same rate over the past 10 years, particularly for women and possibly for men.
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Annual Medical Spending Attributable To Obesity: Payer-And Service-Specific Estimates

TL;DR: This analysis presents updated estimates of the costs of obesity for the United States across payers (Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers), in separate categories for inpatient, non-inpatient, and prescription drug spending.
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Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

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TL;DR: Genetic loci associated with body mass index map near key hypothalamic regulators of energy balance, and one of these loci is near GIPR, an incretin receptor, which may provide new insights into human body weight regulation.
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