‘Liking’ and ‘wanting’ food rewards: Brain substrates and roles in eating disorders
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'Liking' and 'wanting' food rewards: brain substrates and roles in eating disorders.
What brain reward systems mediate motivational 'wanting' and hedonic 'liking' for food rewards? And what roles do those systems play in eating disorders? This article surveys recent findings regarding brain mechanisms of hedonic 'liking', such as the existence of cubic-millimeter hedonic hotspots in nucleus accumbens and ventral pallidum for opioid amplification of sensory pleasure. It also con...
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عنوان ژورنال: Physiology & Behavior
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0031-9384
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.02.044