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Trial reportThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2010

Distinct modulatory effects of satiety and sibutramine on brain responses to food images in humans: a double dissociation across hypothalamus, amygdala, and ventral striatum.

Paul C Fletcher, Antonella Napolitano, Andrew Skeggs, Sam R Miller, Bruno Delafont, Victoria C Cambridge, Sanne de Wit, Pradeep J Nathan, Allison Brooke, Stephen O'Rahilly and 2 more

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Trial report in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 39 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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39citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.6field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

39 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 73 citations in OpenAlex.

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  20. Hypothalamic Responses to Cocaine and Food Cues in Individuals with Cocaine Dependence.The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

12 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Paul C FletcherDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, GlaxoSmithKline Clinical Unit Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Centre for Clinical Investigations, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, United Kingdom. pcf22@cam.ac.uk
Antonella Napolitano
Andrew Skeggs
Sam R Miller
Bruno Delafont
Victoria C Cambridge
Sanne de Wit
Pradeep J Nathan
Allison Brooke
Stephen O'Rahilly
I Sadaf Farooqi
Edward T Bullmore
Addenbrooke's Hospital · GBGlaxoSmithKline (United Kingdom) · GBUniversity of Cambridge · GBUniversity of Amsterdam · NL

Funding

Medical Research Council G0001354Medical Research Council G0502115Medical Research Council G0900554Wellcome Trust 064351
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to explore brain responses to food images in overweight humans, examining independently the impact of a prescan meal ("satiety") and the anti-obesity drug sibutramine, a serotonin and noradrenaline reuptake inhibitor. We identified significantly different responses to these manipulations in amygdala, hypothalamus, and ventral striatum. Each region was specifically responsive to high-calorie compared to low-calorie food images. However, the ventral striatal response was attenuated by satiety (but unaffected by sibutramine), while the hypothalamic and amygdala responses were attenuated by drug but unaffected by satiety. Direct assessment of regional interactions confirmed the significance of this double dissociation. We explored the regional responses in greater detail by determining whether they were predictive of eating behavior and weight change. We observed that across the different regions, the individual-specific magnitude of drug- and satiety-induced modulation was associated with both variables: the sibutramine-induced modulation of the hypothalamic response was correlated with the drug's impact on both weight and subsequently measured ad libitum eating. The satiety-induced modulation of striatal response also correlated with subsequent ad libitum eating. These results suggest that hypothalamus and amygdala have roles in the control of food intake that are distinct from those of ventral striatum. Furthermore, they support a regionally specific effect on brain function through which sibutramine exerts its clinical effect.

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FoodAdiposityAdultAmygdalaAppetite DepressantsBasal GangliaBody WeightBrainCyclobutanesDouble-Blind MethodEnergy IntakeFeeding BehaviorFemaleHumansHypothalamusImage Processing, Computer-AssistedAppetite DepressantsCyclobutanessibutramine

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PMID20980590
PMCPMC3447260
OpenAlexW2017853801

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