As you might have noticed, Sci is really interested lately in the concept of food reward systems, in particular the issues associated with the effects of binge eating on reward systems in the brain, and the issue of “food addiction”.
And Sci is not the only one who is interested. Lots of other people in the scientific world (not to mention people outside the scientific world) are interested as well. And in the same issue of Nature Neuroscience that published the paper that Sci covered on dopamine and obesity in rats, David Epstein and Yavin Shaham wrote a commentary on the very same article. Yavin Shaham (the last author and thus the big kahuna) is a big guy in the dopamine and addiction world, and is an important researcher at the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
And these guys have some good points.
Points that Sci (figuring others probably don’t have easy access to Nature Neuroscience) wants to share with you.
Here we go.
Epstein and Shaham. “Cheesecake-eating rats and the question of food addiction” Nature Neuroscience, 2010
Filed under: Addiction, Behavioral Neuro | Tagged: D2 receptors, dopamine, food choice, food intake, obesity, shaham | 2 Comments »
