University of Cambridge
Neural contributions to motivational control of appetite in humans examined
Published in Pharma Investments, Ventures and Law Weekly, December 26th, 2004
According to published research from England, "The motivation to eat in humans is a complex process influenced by intrinsic mechanisms relating to the hunger and satiety cascade, and extrinsic mechanisms based on the appetitive incentive value of individual foods, which can themselves induce desire. This study was designed to investigate the neural basis of these two factors contributing to the control of motivation to eat within the same experimental design using positron emission tomography. Using a novel counterbalanced approach, participants were scanned in two...
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