Food for thought: How the brain reacts to food may be linked to overeating
Thursday, July 19, 2018 - 09:23
in Psychology & Sociology
The reason why some people find it so hard to resist finishing an entire bag of chips or bowl of candy may lie with how their brain responds to food rewards, according to researchers who found that when certain regions of the brain reacted more strongly to being rewarded with food than being rewarded with money, those people were more likely to overeat.