Study identifies neural activity linked to food addiction
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 12:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Persons with an addictive-like eating behaviour appear to have greater neural activity in certain regions of the brain similar to substance dependence, including elevated activation in reward circuitry in response to food cues, according to a report posted online today that will appear in the August print issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...
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