Trial reportThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2006
Individual differences in reward drive predict neural responses to images of food.
Trial report in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 214 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
214 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 594 citations in OpenAlex.
- Common and distinct neural correlates of personal and vicarious reward: A quantitative meta-analysis.NeuroImage · 2015Pooled it
- Ventral-striatal responsiveness during reward anticipation in ADHD and its relation to trait impulsivity in the healthy population: a meta-analytic review of the fMRI literature.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2014Pooled it
- Neurobehavioural correlates of body mass index and eating behaviours in adults: a systematic review.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2013Pooled it
- The Effects of Kisspeptin on Brain Response to Food Images and Psychometric Parameters of Appetite in Healthy Men.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2021Trial
- Appetitive Pavlovian-to-Instrumental Transfer in Participants with Normal-Weight and Obesity.Nutrients · 2019Trial
- Olfactory Stimulation with Japanese Soy Sauce Improves Upper Limb Performance.Occupational therapy international · 2019Trial
- Using neuroimaging to investigate the impact of Mandolean® training in young people with obesity: a pilot randomised controlled trial.BMC pediatrics · 2018Trial
- Kisspeptin modulates sexual and emotional brain processing in humans.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2017Trial
- Longitudinal changes in adolescent risk-taking: a comprehensive study of neural responses to rewards, pubertal development, and risk-taking behavior.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2015Trial
- Dietary self-control is related to the speed with which attributes of healthfulness and tastiness are processed.Psychological science · 2015Trial
- Emphasising personal investment effects weight loss and hedonic thoughts about food after obesity surgery.Journal of obesity · 2014Trial
- Effects of leptin deficiency and replacement on cerebellar response to food-related cues.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2013Trial
- The impact of sleep deprivation on food desire in the human brain.Nature communications · 2013Trial
- Inducing negative affect increases the reward value of appetizing foods in dieters.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2012Trial
- The effects of exercise on the neuronal response to food cues.Physiology & behavior · 2012Trial
- Altered default network activity in obesity.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2011Trial
- The gut hormones PYY 3-36 and GLP-1 7-36 amide reduce food intake and modulate brain activity in appetite centers in humans.Cell metabolism · 2011Trial
- Reward guides vision when it's your thing: trait reward-seeking in reward-mediated visual priming.PloS one · 2010Trial
- Distinct modulatory effects of satiety and sibutramine on brain responses to food images in humans: a double dissociation across hypothalamus, amygdala, and ventral striatum.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2010Trial
- Behavioral inhibition/activation system in obsessive-compulsive disorder: brain morphometric correlates and treatment outcomes.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
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Abstract
A network of interconnected brain regions, including orbitofrontal, ventral striatal, amygdala, and midbrain areas, has been widely implicated in a number of aspects of food reward. However, in humans, sensitivity to reward can vary significantly from one person to the next. Individuals high in this trait experience more frequent and intense food cravings and are more likely to be overweight or develop eating disorders associated with excessive food intake. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we report that individual variation in trait reward sensitivity (as measured by the Behavioral Activation Scale) is highly correlated with activation to images of appetizing foods (e.g., chocolate cake, pizza) in a fronto-striatal-amygdala-midbrain network. Our findings demonstrate that there is considerable personality-linked variability in the neural response to food cues in healthy participants and provide important insight into the neurobiological factors underlying vulnerability to certain eating problems (e.g., hyperphagic obesity).
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