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References from In defense of pleasure: We need to rethink food reward and obesity. Local targets link to admitted publications; unresolved targets remain external evidence.
Rethinking food reward
10.1146/annurev-psych-122216-011643 · 2020 · External reference
Postingestive reward acts through behavioral reinforcement and is conserved in obesity and after bariatric surgery
10.1371/journal.pbio.3002936 · 2024 · External reference
Metabolic regulation of brain response to food cues
10.1016/j.cub.2013.04.001 · 2013 · External reference
Food reward in the absence of taste receptor signaling
10.1016/j.neuron.2008.01.032 · 2008 · External reference
Ultra-processed diets cause excess calorie intake and weight gain: an inpatient randomized controlled trial of ad libitum food intake
2019 · External reference
Effects of sweet-liking on body composition depend on age and lifestyle: a challenge to the simple sweet-liking-obesity hypothesis
10.3390/nu12092702 · 2020 · External reference
A randomized controlled trial investigating the effect of liraglutide on self-reported liking and neural responses to food stimuli in participants with obesity
10.1038/s41366-023-01370-w · 2023 · External reference
Obesity- and diet-induced plasticity in systems that control eating and energy balance
10.1002/oby.24060 · 2024 · External reference
A gut lipid messenger links excess dietary fat to dopamine deficiency
10.1126/science.1239275 · 2013 · External reference
Habitual daily intake of a sweet and fatty snack modulates reward processing in humans
10.1016/j.cmet.2023.02.015 · 2023 · External reference
Brain responses to nutrients are severely impaired and not reversed by weight loss in humans with obesity: a randomized crossover study
10.1038/s42255-023-00816-9 · 2023 · External reference
Food cue reactivity and craving predict eating and weight gain: a meta-analytic review
10.1111/obr.12354 · 2016 · External reference
Long-term, calorie-restricted intake of a high-fat diet in rats reduces impulse control and ventral striatal D2 receptor signalling—two markers of addiction vulnerability
10.1111/ejn.13117 · 2015 · External reference
The neural basis of drug craving: an incentive-sensitization theory of addiction
10.1016/0165-0173(93)90013-p · 1993 · External reference