ArticleScientific reports2016
Incubation of food craving is independent of macronutrient composition.
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- Frequency of Consuming Foods Predicts Changes in Cravings for Those Foods During Weight Loss: The POUNDS Lost Study.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2017Trial
- Biomolecular correlates of incubated sucrose-seeking within ventromedial prefrontal cortex are sex- and subregion-selective.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2025Article
- Linking drug and food addiction: an overview of the shared neural circuits and behavioral phenotype.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Review
- Neural Mechanisms Mediating Sex Differences in Motivation for Reward: Cognitive Bias, Food, Gambling, and Drugs of Abuse.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Incubation of palatable food craving is associated with brain-wide neuronal activation in mice.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Acute high-intensity interval exercise attenuates incubation of craving for foods high in fat.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2022Article
- Assessment of Binge-Like Eating of Unsweetened vs. Sweetened Chow Pellets in BALB/c Substrains.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Factors modulating the incubation of drug and non-drug craving and their clinical implications.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Review
- Converging vulnerability factors for compulsive food and drug use.Neuropharmacology · 2021Review
- Sex specific effects of "junk-food" diet on calcium permeable AMPA receptors and silent synapses in the nucleus accumbens core.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2021Article
- Weight Loss After Obesity is Associated with Increased Food Motivation and Faster Weight Regain in Mice.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2020Article
- Incubation of food craving in rats: A review.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2020Review
- Functional and structural plasticity contributing to obesity: roles for sex, diet, and individual susceptibility.Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2018Article
- Comparison of the Time-Dependent Changes in Immediate Early Gene Labeling and Spine Density Following Abstinence From Contingent or Non-contingent Chocolate Pellet Delivery.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2018Article
- Structural and Functional Plasticity within the Nucleus Accumbens and Prefrontal Cortex Associated with Time-Dependent Increases in Food Cue-Seeking Behavior.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2017Article
- Incubation of cue-induced reinstatement of cocaine, but not sucrose, seeking in C57BL/6J mice.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2017Article
- Consequences of Adolescent Exposure to the Cannabinoid Receptor Agonist WIN55,212-2 on Working Memory in Female Rats.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2017Article
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Abstract
Cues previously paired with rewarding stimuli induce a time-dependent increase in the motivational craving state (incubation of craving). Whether there is an increase in craving for high-fat (HF) food over time, which may contribute to overeating and obesity, has not been determined. We hypothesized that cues paired with HF pellets would elicit a greater incubation of craving effect than those paired with standard chow (SC) pellets. Rats exposed to cues associated with either HF or SC pellets demonstrated equivalent levels of craving over an abstinence period of 30 days. Diet preference tests between SC pellets and LabDiet revealed that SC pellets were preferred over LabDiet. Rats reared on SC pellets exclusively, did not display incubation of craving for SC pellets, suggesting that prior history with the food plays an important role in cue-induced seeking behavior. Results identified cues previously associated with food undergo a comparable magnitude of incubation of craving. When ingestive behavior was measured after 30 days of abstinence, rats significantly increased their consumption of HF pellets. Our results indicate that food cues gain importance over time, trigger increased approach behaviors, and increased consumption of HF food following abstinence. This may contribute to overeating and the development of obesity.
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