Depression and obesity are common conditions with major public health implications that
tend to co-occur within individuals. The relationship between these conditions is …

Prior mouse genetic research has set the stage for a deep understanding of appetite
regulation. This goal is now being realized through the use of recent technological …

The brain is the seat of body weight homeostasis. However, our inability to control the
increasing prevalence of obesity highlights a need to look beyond canonical feeding …

The neurovisceral integration (NVI) model was originally proposed to account for observed
relationships between peripheral physiology, cognitive performance, and emotional/physical …

One of the brain's key roles is to facilitate foraging and feeding. It is presumably no
coincidence, then, that the mouth is situated close to the brain in most animal species …

Our current environment is characterized by the omnipresence of food cues. The sight and
smell of real foods, but also graphically depictions of appetizing foods, can guide our eating …

Food is consumed in order to maintain energy balance at homeostatic levels. In addition,
palatable food is also consumed for its hedonic properties independent of energy status …

This article offers a reformulation of the negative reinforcement model of drug addiction and
proposes that the escape and avoidance of negative affect is the prepotent motive for …

Food selection is primarily guided by the visual system. Multiple functional neuro-imaging
studies have examined the brain responses to visual food stimuli. However, the results of …

Adaptive behavior is optimized in organisms that maintain flexible representations of the
value of sensory-predictive cues. To identify central representations of predictive reward …