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          food cravings

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          ·April 4, 2024·6 min read

          Loneliness, Food Cravings, and the Brain

          A new study reveals the link between loneliness, cravings for high-calorie foods, and unhealthy eating behaviors in women, highlighting a significant brain activity pattern associated with social isolation. The research found that women feeling lonely show increased brain activation in areas related to cravings when exposed to images of sugary foods, alongside decreased self-control towards eating.
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          ·January 18, 2024·5 min read

          Gut-Brain Network for Sugar and Fat Cravings Discovered

          Researchers identified distinct neural pathways in the brain for fat and sugar cravings. This research reveals that separate circuits in the vagus nerve, originating in the gut, communicate information about consumed fats and sugars to the brain, triggering dopamine release in the brain's reward center.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·June 8, 2023·5 min read

          Stressed Brains Amplify Comfort Food Cravings

          Researchers uncovered how chronic stress in combination with high-calorie diets can amplify our brain's reward system, driving overeating and weight gain. They found that stress inhibits the lateral habenula, a brain area typically curbing such reward signals.
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          ·December 20, 2022·5 min read

          Newly Identified Neuromarker Reveals Clues About Drug and Food Craving

          Researchers have identified neural biomarkers associated with food and drug cravings. The findings could help pave the way for new treatments for addiction.
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          ·September 7, 2022·6 min read

          Cravings for Fatty Foods Traced to Gut-Brain Connection

          Fat entering the intestines triggers a signal that is conducted across the neurons and to the brain, driving the desire for fatty foods.
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          ·April 20, 2022·5 min read

          Got Food Cravings? What’s Living in Your Gut May Be Responsible

          Microbes in the gut influence what an animal chooses to eat. Altering the microbiome resulted in changes to preferred diets.
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          ·April 4, 2022·4 min read

          Neuronal Mechanisms That Control Food Cravings During Pregnancy Identified

          A new study sheds light on the neurobiology of cravings for certain foods women experience while pregnant. According to researchers, during pregnancy, the brain undergoes alterations to functional connections in the reward systems, as well as taste and sensorimotor centers. Pregnant females become more sensitive to sweet foods and develop binge eating behaviors toward high-calorie foods. Pregnancy induces a full reorganization of the mesolimbic neural circuits via D2R dopaminergic neurons in the nucleus accumbens.
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          ·September 2, 2021·3 min read

          A Connection Between Brain’s Opioid System and Eating Behavior

          The function of the opioid system is connected to eating triggered by external stimuli. The findings could lead to the development of new therapies that target the opioid system to reduce obesity.
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          FeaturedNeuroscience
          ·June 10, 2021·4 min read

          Brainfood: Researchers Find Brain Area Associated with Craving Protein

          Study reveals the role the ventral tegmental area of the brain plays in craving protein-rich foods.
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          ·October 9, 2019·4 min read

          Craving junk food after a sleepless night?

          Sleep deprivation causes the olfactory system to go into overdrive, sharpening food odors, and breaking down communication within other brain areas that receive food signals.
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          FeaturedNeurosciencePsychology
          ·June 28, 2019·5 min read

          Ack! I need chocolate! The science of PMS food cravings

          From comfort eating to hormonal levels contributing to a desire for sweets, many studies have investigated why women with PMS often crave certain foods. Researchers explore why food cravings may occur, and what can be done to suppress them for women with premenstrual syndrome.
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          ·July 23, 2018·3 min read

          How the Brain Controls Food Cravings

          A new EEG study reveals when activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is suppressed, cravings for high calorie food increases.
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