Weight Gain Can Lead to Fewer Food-Related Brain Rewards

A common science trend is to study the connection between obesity and the brain, in hopes of discovering neuroscience-based therapies and treatments to help people lose weight. A new study has shown that people who are overweight or obese have a lower pleasure response to delicious foods like milkshakes, versus their normal-weight counterparts. Human and [...]

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Posted December 16, 2010 by Karen Merzenich under Neuroscience, Research studies