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    Neural Vulnerability Factors that Increase Risk for Weight Gain: Prevention and Treatment Implications

    Obese versus lean humans show greater activation of reward valuation regions (caudate, amygdala, orbitofrontal cortex [OFC], insula) in response to palatable food images and to cues that signal impending palat...

    Eric Stice, Sonja Yokum, Kyle Burger in Molecular Mechanisms Underpinning the Deve… (2014)

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    Dopamine-Based Reward Circuitry Responsivity, Genetics, and Overeating

    Data suggest that low levels of dopamine D2 receptors and attenuated responsivity of dopamine-target regions to food intake is associated with increased eating and elevated weight. There is also growing (altho...

    Eric Stice, Sonja Yokum, David Zald in Behavioral Neurobiology of Eating Disorders (2011)