Brain mechanisms of liking & wanting food rewards
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Seminar Abstract: The pleasure of tasty foods, and the desire to eat them, arise in our brains – not simply in the foods themselves. This talk will describe how a brain network of small hedonic hotspots generate intense ‘liking’ for food, and how larger brain mesolimbic systems generate ‘wanting’ to eat. It will also consider interactions between brain hunger-satiety systems and brain reward systems, and how brain mechanisms for natural appetite relate to addictions.
- Speaker
- Prof Kent Berridge, University of Michigan
- Hosted by
- Rowett Institute
- Venue
- The Rowett Institute
- Contact
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Dr Nigel Hoggard
Tel: 01224 438655