ArticleAppetite2019
Dietary effects on the determinants of food choice: Impulsive choice, discrimination, incentive motivation, preference, and liking in male rats.
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- Microtemporal Dynamics of Dietary Intake, Physical Activity, and Impulsivity in Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Ecological Momentary Assessment Study Within Nutritional Psychiatry.JMIR mental health · 2023Article
- Acute gut microbiome changes after traumatic brain injury are associated with chronic deficits in decision-making and impulsivity in male rats.Behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- A High-Sugar Diet Consumption, Metabolism and Health Impacts with a Focus on the Development of Substance Use Disorder: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2022Review
- Food preference assay in male and female C57BL/6 mice.Journal of neuroscience methods · 2022Article
- The role of dopamine and endocannabinoid systems in prefrontal cortex development: Adolescence as a critical period.Frontiers in neural circuits · 2022Review
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- Western Diet Consumption During Development: Setting the Stage for Neurocognitive Dysfunction.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2021Review
- Sensitization of the reinforcing value of food: a novel risk factor for overweight in adolescents.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2020Article
- Experience Matters: The Effects of Hypothetical versus Experiential Delays and Magnitudes on Impulsive Choice in Delay Discounting Tasks.Brain sciences · 2019Article
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Abstract
The current study sought to understand how long-term exposure to diets high in saturated fat and refined sugar affected impulsive choice behavior, discrimination abilities, incentive motivation, food preferences, and liking of fat and sugar in male rats. The results showed that 8 weeks of dietary exposure impaired impulsive choice behavior; rats exposed to diets high in processed fat or sugar were more sensitive to changes in delay, a marker of impulsivity. For the high-fat group, these deficits in impulsive choice may stem from poor time discrimination, as their performance was impaired on a temporal discrimination task. The high-fat group also showed reduced magnitude sensitivity in the impulsive choice task, and they earned fewer rewards during lever press training indicating potentially reduced incentive motivation. The high-fat group also developed a preference for high-fat foods compared to the chow and high-sugar group who both preferred sugar. In contrast, dietary exposure did not alter the liking of fat or sugar as measured by a taste reactivity task. Together, the results suggest that the alterations in impulsive choice, time discrimination, incentive motivation, and food preferences induced by consumption of a high-fat diet could make individuals vulnerable to overeating, and thus obesity.
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