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SynthesisSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2024

Cognitive reappraisal of food craving and emotions: a coordinate-based meta-analysis of fMRI studies.

Marta Gerosa, Nicola Canessa, Carmen Morawetz, Giulia Mattavelli

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Synthesis in Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Cue labeling reduces cigarette craving and associated neural activity.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Marta GerosaIUSS Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON) Center, Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS, Pavia 27100, Italy.
Nicola CanessaIUSS Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON) Center, Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS, Pavia 27100, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0179-6384
Carmen MorawetzDepartment of Psychology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck 6020, Austria.
Giulia MattavelliIUSS Cognitive Neuroscience (ICON) Center, Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS, Pavia 27100, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2042-8947
Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia · ITUniversität Innsbruck · ATUniversity of Pavia · IT

Funding

Italian Ministry of Health
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Growing evidence supports the effectiveness of cognitive reappraisal in down-regulating food desire. Still, the neural bases of food craving down-regulation via reappraisal, as well as their degree of overlap vs specificity compared with emotion down-regulation, remain unclear. We addressed this gap through activation likelihood estimation meta-analyses of neuroimaging studies on the neural bases of (i) food craving down-regulation and (ii) emotion down-regulation, alongside conjunction and subtraction analyses among the resulting maps. Exploratory meta-analyses on activations related to food viewing compared with active regulation and up-regulation of food craving have also been performed. Food and emotion down-regulation via reappraisal consistently engaged overlapping activations in dorsolateral and ventrolateral prefrontal, posterior parietal, pre-supplementary motor and lateral posterior temporal cortices, mainly in the left hemisphere. Its distinctive association with the right anterior/posterior insula and left inferior frontal gyrus suggests that food craving down-regulation entails a more extensive integration of interoceptive information about bodily states and greater inhibitory control over the appetitive urge towards food compared with emotion down-regulation. This evidence is suggestive of unique interoceptive and motivational components elicited by food craving reappraisal, associated with distinctive patterns of fronto-insular activity. These results might inform theoretical models of food craving regulation and prompt novel therapeutic interventions for obesity and eating disorders.

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CravingMagnetic Resonance ImagingBrainBrain MappingCognitionEmotionsHumansactivation likelihood estimationcognitive reappraisalemotion regulationfood craving regulationrehabilitation

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PMID38113382
PMCPMC10868133
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