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Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity
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The US remains at the forefront of a global obesity epidemic with a significant negative impact on public health. While it is well known that a balance between energy intake and expenditure is homeostatically regulated to control weight, growing evidence points to multifactorial social, neurobehavioral and metabolic determinants of food intake that influence obesity risk. This review presents factors such as the ubiquitous presence of rewarding foods in the environment and increased salience of such foods that stimulate brain reward motivation and stress circuits to influence eating behaviors. These rewarding foods via conditioned and reinforcing effects stimulate not only metabolic, but also stress hormones, that, in turn, hijack the brain emotional (limbic) and motivational (striatal) pathways, to promote food craving and excessive food intake. Furthermore, the impact of high levels of stress and trauma and altered metabolic environment (e.g. higher weight, altered insulin sensitivity) on prefrontal cortical self-control processes that regulate emotional, motivational and visceral homeostatic mechanisms of food intake and obesity risk are also discussed. A heuristic framework is presented in which the interactive dynamic effects of neurobehavioral adaptations in metabolic, motivation and stress neurobiology may further support food craving, excessive food intake and weight gain in a complex feed-forward manner. Implications of such adaptations in brain addictive-motivational and stress pathways and their effects on excessive food intake and weight gain are discussed to highlight key questions that requires future research attention in order to better understand and address the growing obesity epidemic.
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This narrative review proposes that highly palatable foods and food cues, via reward/motivation and stress neurobiology, promote food craving, excessive intake, and weight gain in a feed-forward manner. It integrates human and animal evidence on metabolic hormones, glucocorticoids, stress/trauma, and prefrontal self-control to frame obesity risk as overlapping with addiction neurobiology.
Key findings
- More than 500 million people worldwide are classified as obese (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m²), and two-thirds of the US population is overweight or obese (BMI ≥ 25 kg/m²).
- Highly palatable foods and related cues are conditioned/reinforcing and activate brain reward and motivation pathways; in a large community sample, higher food craving was associated with greater intake of these foods, and higher BMI was associated with greater food craving. Fast foods such as potato chips, processed meats, and sugar-sweetened beverages predicted long-term weight gain in large prospective US cohorts.
- Metabolic and stress signals interact with reward circuits: insulin resistance/high insulin may promote rather than suppress food craving and intake and increase activation in dopamine-rich regions (VTA, nucleus accumbens, dorsal striatum); higher leptin predicted blunted VmPFC/rACC activation to high-fat food images and glucose/fructose in adolescents; higher ghrelin was associated with greater food cravings; and higher chronic stress, insulin, and cortisol responses predicted greater weight gain at 6-month follow-up.
- Stress, trauma, and adversity are positively associated with adiposity, BMI, and weight gain, with stronger associations among overweight and binge-eating individuals; stress can increase fast food, snacks, calorie-dense highly palatable foods, and binge eating, and overweight/obese individuals may be more vulnerable to stress-driven eating.
Methods
- Narrative review, not a primary empirical study; it synthesizes human and animal research on addiction, stress neurobiology, metabolic hormones, and food intake.
- No new sample or dataset is analyzed; the paper cites prior studies, including the author’s own cross-sectional, longitudinal, and neuroimaging work.
- Main analysis is conceptual integration, culminating in a heuristic feed-forward framework (Fig. 1) modified from Sinha & Jastreboff (2013).
Limitations
- The paper states that the link between glucocorticoids, ghrelin, insulin, and leptin on food motivation and intake in humans is not clear; the influence of specific food types on peripheral and central glucocorticoids and food craving/intake is not known; whether adaptations differ for sweets, fats, and carbohydrates versus proteins is unclear; and the role of additives/preservatives is not well studied.
- The paper states that longitudinal studies measuring metabolic and stress hormone adaptations and their impact on food intake and weight gain in community samples are needed, as are experimental studies assessing neural and biobehavioral changes relating to food cues, stress, and food intake.
- Evident from the text: as a narrative review, it does not use a systematic search or meta-analytic synthesis, and many cited findings come from animal models, cross-sectional studies, or observational cohorts; the proposed heuristic framework is presented rather than empirically tested in the paper.
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“higher food craving was significantly associated with greater intake of these foods”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Highly palatable (HP) foods and related cues, food seeking and intake
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- Not checked yetcites Chao, Grilo, White, & Sinha, 2014
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“in a cross sectional study with a large community sample, we found higher food craving for these HP foods”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Highly palatable (HP) foods and related cues, food seeking and intake
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“those with higher body mass index (BMI) reported greater levels of food craving”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Highly palatable (HP) foods and related cues, food seeking and intake
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“higher leptin levels (associated with obesity) predicted blunted ventromedial prefrontal cortex and rostral anterior cingulate (VmPFC/rACC) activation to high fat food images and to glucose and fructose intake in adolescents”
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“higher activity in the insula and dorsal striatum correlated with higher insulin levels, insulin resistance and with food craving when participants were placed in their favorite food contexts via imagined exposure”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Overeating of HP foods and metabolic and stress hormone responses
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“higher chronic stress, insulin and cortisol responses predicted greater weight gain at a future 6-month follow-up assessment”
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“we found in a recent longitudinal study of community volunteers that higher ghrelin was associated with greater food cravings”
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“higher cortisol responses in the hypoglycemic state was associated with higher striatal-limbic brain activation during concurrent assessment of these responses”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Overeating of HP foods and metabolic and stress hormone responses
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“in response to a standard glucose drink, healthy lean individuals showed increased connectivity between the hypothalamus and dopamine-rich regions of the ventral and dorsal striatum as well as the insula”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Overeating of HP foods and metabolic and stress hormone responses
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- Not checked yetcites Page, Sinha, & Sherwin, 2013
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“genetic and other social and biological variables may also contribute towards vulnerability to obesity and weight gain”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Multifactorial determinants of body weight and food intake
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“Considerable evidence from population-based and clinical studies indicates a significant and positive association of high uncontrollable stressful events and chronic stress states with both substance addiction (Sinha, 2008) and with adiposity, BMI and weight gain”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Stress, trauma, adversity and obesity risk
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“acute stress increases amygdala and blunts medial orbito-frontal cortex response to milkshake vs tasteless receipt, but this effect was moderated by high cortisol levels and by high BMI respectively”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Metabolic and stress adaptations with increased body weight
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- Not checked yetcites Rudenga, Sinha, & Small, 2013 source
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“experimentally reducing blood glucose to mild hypoglycemic levels relative to normal euglycemic levels, not only increases plasma cortisol but also increases wanting of HP foods and brain activation of reward-motivational (striatal) and emotion-stress (limbic) regions in response to high fat, high sugar HP versus low fat and non-food pictures”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Overeating of HP foods and metabolic and stress hormone responses
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“a number of social factors such as the easy availability and relatively low cost of high calorie foods that are highly palatable (HP), widespread marketing of such HP foods, increased use of sugars, sugar substitutes, preservatives and sugar sweetened beverages, altered eating patterns as well as the promotion of sedentary lifestyles all contribute to this pandemic”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Multifactorial determinants of body weight and food intake
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“previously believed notions that body weight is regulated by the hypothalamus with homeostatic and physiologic metabolic processes that maintain a balance between energy intake and energy expenditure”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Multifactorial determinants of body weight and food intake
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- Not checked yetcites Berthoud, 2012
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“Research with animals and humans has documented activation of brain reward regions and increased dopaminergic transmission with HP food cue exposure, along with concomitant increases in food craving and motivation”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Highly palatable (HP) foods and related cues, food seeking and intake
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- Not checked yetcites Kelley, Schiltz, & Landry, 2005
- Not checked yetcites Small, Zatorre, Dagher, Evans, & Jones-Gotman, 2001
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“their related sensory (including both discrete and context related) and autobiographical associations such as sights, smells, tastes, place where eaten, with whom, when and time and other context factors serve as conditioned cues that may increase liking and preference for such foods, tendency towards seeking them, thereby resulting in facilitating food craving and intake of these foods”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Highly palatable (HP) foods and related cues, food seeking and intake
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- Rests on an assumption: Highly palatable foods are more liked, preferred, and found rewarding in taste.
- Rests on an assumption: Highly palatable foods are ubiquitous in the current obesogenic environment.
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“Such highly palatable and processed foods and their related associations or ‘cues’ stimulate the brain reward and motivation pathways just as reinforcing drugs of abuse and via learning/conditioning mechanisms increase the likelihood of HP food seeking and consumption”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Highly palatable (HP) foods and related cues, food seeking and intake
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- Not checked yetcites Alsio, Olszewski, Levine, & Schioth, 2012
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“The conditioned properties of these HP foods and related increases in their intake promotes their heightened salience, and, in turn, results in greater ‘wanting’ and seeking of HP foods, similar to the incentive salience processes that occur with increasing alcohol and drug intake”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Highly palatable (HP) foods and related cues, food seeking and intake
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- Not checked yetcites Robinson & Berridge, 2008 source
- Not checked yetcites Sinha & Jastreboff, 2013
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“exposure to high fats diets, yo–yo dieting and withdrawal from such diets, may alter extrahypothalamic CRF pathways involved in the regulation of stress responses and also disrupt brain reward motivation responses to increase compulsive food seeking and stress-induced HP food seeking”
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“chronic high levels of peripheral insulin and insulin resistance, as is observed in many individuals with obesity, may promote rather than suppress food craving and intake as well as increase brain activation in dopamine-rich reward regions such as the ventral tegmental area (VTA), nucleus accumbens and dorsal striatum”
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“Overconsumption of HP food intake is also known to reduce reward thresholds along with an upregulation of the extrahypothalamic Corticotrophin Releasing Factor (CRF) in the amygdala and related limbic striatal pathways, which, in turn, may promote food craving and associated greater neural reactivity to food cues in these brain regions thereby increasing risk of overeating of HP foods”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Overeating of HP foods and metabolic and stress hormone responses
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- Not checked yetcites Cifani, Polidori, Melotto, Ciccocioppo, & Massi, 2009
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“cortisol rise with macronutrient intake may serve to promote gluconeogenesis underscoring the critical role of glucocorticoids in energy homeostasis”
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“with greater consumption of HP foods, the concomitant changes in carbohydrate and fat metabolism, insulin sensitivity and appetite hormones may influence neural reward regions involved in increasing salience and motivation for food intake, that, in turn, may alter energy homeostasis”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Overeating of HP foods and metabolic and stress hormone responses
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- Not checked yetcites Alsio et al., 2012
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“specific types of foods may significantly affect both hypothalamic and extrahypothalamic peripheral sources of cortisol and may modulate stress responses to promote food motivation and intake”
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“binge and heavy alcohol use, but also high nicotine and other psychostimulant use, reduces the well-known increased cortisol responses observed with acute alcohol/drug intake”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Overeating of HP foods and metabolic and stress hormone responses
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- Not checked yetcites Koob & Kreek, 2007
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“it is possible that higher intake of HP comfort foods may alter cortisol responses to such food intake, with glucocorticoid-related alterations that not only influence homeostatic functions of glucocorticoids in energy balance, but also affect hypothalamic and extrahypothalamic regulation of food intake”
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“leptin and ghrelin influence dopaminergic transmission in brain reward regions and food seeking behavior in animals, and activate brain reward regions in humans”
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“stress affects glucose levels and increased glucose variability in both patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes”
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“chronic high levels of insulin have been shown to downregulate HPA axis responses and increase basal sympathetic tone”
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“high levels of stress and glucocorticoids increase glucose and insulin levels and also promote insulin resistance”
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“growing evidence from animal and human research indicates that increased weight, insulin resistance and high fat diets are associated with blunted glucocorticoid responses, and also altered autonomic and peripheral catecholamine responses to stress challenge”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Metabolic and stress adaptations with increased body weight
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- Not checked yetcites Appelhans, Pagoto, Peters, & Spring, 2010
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“ghrelin, which, via signaling of reward pathways promotes appetite and feeding (Malik et al., 2008), is also involved in stress-induced food reward and food seeking”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Metabolic and stress adaptations with increased body weight
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“Stress-driven eating has been found to be exacerbated in obese women (Laitinen et al., 2002) whereas stress-driven eating appears to have an inconsistent effect on food consumption in lean individuals”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Stress, trauma, adversity and obesity risk
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- Not checked yetcites Laitinen et al., 2002
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“stress and adversity can increase consumption of fast food (Steptoe, Lipsey, & Wardle, 1998), snacks (Oliver & Wardle, 1999), calorie-dense and highly-palatable foods (Epel et al., 2001), and stress has been associated with increased binge eating”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Stress, trauma, adversity and obesity risk
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- Not checked yetcites Steptoe, Lipsey, & Wardle, 1998
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“such alterations in metabolic state may influence both responses of brain reward regions to impact motivation, but also affect hypothalamic circuits that interact with overlapping stress and energy regulation circuitry”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Metabolic and stress adaptations with increased body weight
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- Not checked yetcites Sinha & Jastreboff, 2013
- Not checked yetcites Ulrich-Lai & Ryan, 2014
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“Glucocorticoids increase plasma leptin and ghrelin levels, while ghrelin which also increases with stress, appears to contribute to regulating anxiety and mood”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > The overlapping neurobiology of stress, reward and energy homeostasis > Peripheral and central stress biology, energy homeostasis and food intake
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“bilateral adrenalecomy reduces food intake, and GC administration increases food intake by stimulating the release of NPY and inhibiting CRF release”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > The overlapping neurobiology of stress, reward and energy homeostasis > Peripheral and central stress biology, energy homeostasis and food intake
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- Not checked yetcites Cavagnini, Croci, Putignano, Petroni, & Invitti, 2000
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“Following exposure to psychological stress, satiated overweight people have been shown to have greater craving for desserts and snacks and have higher caloric intake as compared to lean individuals”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Stress, trauma, adversity and obesity risk
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- Not checked yetcites Lemmens et al., 2011 source
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“In addition to the hypothalamus being responsive to GCs via negative feedback, it is also responsive to insulin, secreted from the pancreas and integral to glucose metabolism and energy storage (Dallman et al., 2005; Schwartz, Figlewicz, Baskin, Woods, & Porte, 1992), and to hormones like leptin, which inhibits appetite, and ghrelin, which promotes appetite”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > The overlapping neurobiology of stress, reward and energy homeostasis > Peripheral and central stress biology, energy homeostasis and food intake
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- Not checked yetcites Dallman et al., 2005 source
- Not checked yetcites Schwartz, Figlewicz, Baskin, Woods, & Porte, 1992
- Not checked yetcites Currie, Mirza, Fuld, Park, & Vasselli, 2005
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“This research suggests that stress, trauma and adversity may promote obesity risk, irregular eating patterns and alter food preference, but that overweight and obese individuals may be more vulnerable to such effects, possibly via weight-related adaptations in energy regulation and homeostasis”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Stress, trauma, adversity and obesity risk
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“Chronic activation of the HPA axis is known to alter glucose metabolism, promote insulin resistance, with changes in a number of appetite-related hormones (e.g. leptin, ghrelin) and feeding neuropeptides (e.g. NPY)”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > The overlapping neurobiology of stress, reward and energy homeostasis > Peripheral and central stress biology, energy homeostasis and food intake
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- Not checked yetcites Bjorntorp, 1992 source
- Not checked yetcites Kaplan, Adams, Clarkson, & Koritnik, 1984
- Not checked yetcites Kuo et al., 2007
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“Food restriction and high fat diets not only alter HPA axis responses to stress (Appelhans et al., 2010; Dallman, 2010; Hillman et al., 2012; Tyrka et al., 2012), but also alter GC gene expression in a number of brain regions involved in energy homeostasis and stress”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > The overlapping neurobiology of stress, reward and energy homeostasis > Peripheral and central stress biology, energy homeostasis and food intake
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- Not checked yetcites Appelhans et al., 2010
- Not checked yetcites Dallman, 2010 source
- Not checked yetcites Hillman et al., 2012
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“The second is the autonomic nervous system, which is coordinated by the sympathoadrenal medullary (SAM) and the parasympathetic pathways”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > The overlapping neurobiology of stress, reward and energy homeostasis > Peripheral and central stress biology, energy homeostasis and food intake
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- Not checked yetcites Kyrou & Tsigos, 2007
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“Chronic and high levels of repeated and uncontrollable stress results in dysregulation of the HPA axis, with changes in GC gene expression”
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“The first is the HPA axis, in which CRF is released from the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus, stimulating secretion of adrenocorticotrophin hormone (ACTH) from the anterior pituitary, which subsequently stimulates the secretion of glucocorticoids (GC) (cortisol or corticosterone) from the adrenal glands”
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- Not checked yetcites Kyrou & Tsigos, 2007
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“adrenal steroids increase glucose and insulin levels as well as selection and intake of high caloric foods”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > The overlapping neurobiology of stress, reward and energy homeostasis > Peripheral and central stress biology, energy homeostasis and food intake
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- Not checked yetcites Chrousos, 2000
- Not checked yetcites Dallman et al., 2003
- Not checked yetcites Tataranni et al., 1996
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“Chronic stress persistently increases GCs and promotes abdominal fat, which in the presence of insulin, decreases HPA axis activity”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > The overlapping neurobiology of stress, reward and energy homeostasis > Peripheral and central stress biology, energy homeostasis and food intake
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- Not checked yetcites Benson et al., 2009
- Not checked yetcites Dallman et al., 2005 source
- Not checked yetcites Tyrka et al., 2012
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“In healthy lean women, binge eating increases fasting glucose, insulin response, and alters the diurnal pattern of leptin secretion”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Stress, trauma, adversity and obesity risk
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- Not checked yetcites Taylor, Hubbard, & Anderson, 1999
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“the medial and lateral components of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) are involved in higher cognitive and executive control functions and also in regulating emotions, visceral and physiological responses, impulses, desires and craving”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > The overlapping neurobiology of stress, reward and energy homeostasis > Extrahypothalamic neural regulation of food reward, motivation and intake
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- Not checked yetcites Arnsten, Mazure, & Sinha, 2012
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“release of orexigenic NPY during stress and increased NPY mRNA in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus, amygdala and hippocampus, increase feeding, but also decrease anxiety and stress”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > The overlapping neurobiology of stress, reward and energy homeostasis > Extrahypothalamic neural regulation of food reward, motivation and intake
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- Not checked yetcites Maniam & Morris, 2012
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“High levels of repeated stress also result in sympathetic overactivity, and stress-related increases in autonomic responses are related to insulin levels and insulin resistance in adolescents and adults”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > The overlapping neurobiology of stress, reward and energy homeostasis > Peripheral and central stress biology, energy homeostasis and food intake
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- Not checked yetcites Keltikangas-Jarvinen et al., 1996 source
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“Increased drug taking and high fat diets alter CRF, GC and noradrenergic activity to increase sensitization of reward pathways (including the ventral tegmental area [VTA], nucleus accumbens [NAc], dorsal striatum and the mPFC regions) which influences preference for addictive substances and HP foods and increases drug/food craving and intake”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > The overlapping neurobiology of stress, reward and energy homeostasis > Extrahypothalamic neural regulation of food reward, motivation and intake
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- Not checked yetcites Aston-Jones & Kalivas, 2008
- Not checked yetcites Cottone et al., 2009 source
- Not checked yetcites Shaham & Hope, 2005
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“amygdala, hippocampus and insula play an important role in encoding of reward, reward cue-based learning and memory for high emotional and reward cues and potentiating emotion and reward cue-based feeding”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > The overlapping neurobiology of stress, reward and energy homeostasis > Extrahypothalamic neural regulation of food reward, motivation and intake
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- Not checked yetcites Berthoud, 2012
- Not checked yetcites Holland, Petrovich, & Gallagher, 2002
- Not checked yetcites Small, 2002
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“Stress and GCs potentiate dopaminergic transmission and impact reward seeking and intake in laboratory animals”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > The overlapping neurobiology of stress, reward and energy homeostasis > Extrahypothalamic neural regulation of food reward, motivation and intake
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- Not checked yetcites Dallman, 2010 source
- Not checked yetcites Dallman et al., 2003
- Not checked yetcites Piazza, 1991
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“this motivational circuit overlaps with limbic/emotional regions (eg. the amygdala, hippocampus, and insula) that play a role in experiencing emotions and stress, and in learning and memory processes that contribute to negotiating behavioral and cognitive responses critical for adaptation and homeostasis”
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“Acute stress increases acquisition of food reward, intake of high fat diets (Adam & Epel, 2007; Wilson et al., 2008), and compulsive food seeking of HP foods (Lemmens et al., 2011), and promotes reward dependent habits”
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“The stress response is initiated via the amygdala and stress regulation occurs partially via GC negative feedback to the hippocampus and medial prefrontal cortical (mPFC) regions”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > The overlapping neurobiology of stress, reward and energy homeostasis > Extrahypothalamic neural regulation of food reward, motivation and intake
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- Not checked yetcites Heinrichs, 2005
- Not checked yetcites McEwen, 2007 source
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“Therefore, prefrontal circuits involved in self-control, emotion regulation and decision making as well as the emotional and motivational brain pathways are key targets for the brain and body’s stress chemicals, that, in turn, influence addiction vulnerability and also obesity risk”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > The overlapping neurobiology of stress, reward and energy homeostasis > Extrahypothalamic neural regulation of food reward, motivation and intake
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“it is known that chronic stress downregulates the HPA axis responses”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Summary and future directions
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“Whether these addictive motivation and stress-relevant adaptations are different for sweets, fats and carbohydrates versus proteins and their impact on excessive intake of certain foods and nutrients to promote obesity risk is also not clear”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Summary and future directions
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“with increases in weight there is increasing insulin insensitivity and alterations in leptin and ghrelin signaling”
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“the link between glucocorticoids, ghrelin, insulin and leptin on food motivation and intake in humans is not clear”
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“the role of food related products such as additives and preservatives on stress and metabolic changes are not well studied”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > Summary and future directions
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“High and repeated stress alters structural and functional responses in these prefrontal and limbic brain regions, providing some basis for the effects of chronic stress on cortico-limbic regions that modulate food reward and craving”
§ Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity > The overlapping neurobiology of stress, reward and energy homeostasis > Extrahypothalamic neural regulation of food reward, motivation and intake
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“their influence on reward and food motivation and intake is not well understood”
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“the influence of specific food types on related peripheral and central glucocorticoids and their effects on food craving and intake is not known”
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“On the basis of the converging lines of evidence suggesting that ubiquitous HP food cues and their intake may alter eating behaviors (e.g., restraint and skipping meals, bingeing and overeating of HP foods), which, in turn, may result in metabolic changes and also affect the brain reward and motivation pathways to increase craving and motivation for HP foods”
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- Rests on an assumption: Highly palatable foods are more liked, preferred, and found rewarding in taste.
- Rests on an assumption: Highly palatable foods are ubiquitous in the current obesogenic environment.
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Highly palatable foods are more liked, preferred, and found rewarding in taste.
“Highly palatable (HP) foods are more liked, preferred and found to be rewarding in taste”
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Highly palatable foods are ubiquitous in the current obesogenic environment.
“These foods are ubiquitous in our current obesogenic environment”
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Genetic and other social and biological variables alone do not explain pandemic levels of obesity.
“but these alone do not explain the pandemic levels of obesity”
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“Highly palatable foods stimulate stress hormones that alter the limbic system (emotions) and striatal (motivational) pathways, promoting further food craving and excessive intake [169].”
From Food Addiction and Psychosocial Adversity: Biological Embedding, Contextual Factors, and Public Health Implications (2020) · cites this paper as [169]
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Metadata
- Authors
- Sinha, R.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Sinha, Rajita
- ORCID
- Sinha, Rajita
- Venue
- Biological Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-01
- Volume
- 131
- Pages
- 5-13
- ISSN
- 0301-0511 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6784832
- OpenAlex
- W2610477874
- Semantic Scholar
- a05a1d3853b5ad3626a6ca31b1b6ee871bcf15ed
- Cited by
- 211
- References
- 152
- Citations by year
- 2026: 18 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 42 · 2023: 25 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 35 · 2020: 29 · 2019: 15 · 2018: 4
- FWCI
- 8.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Biological Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases/National Institutes of Health (R01-DK099039)
- National Institutes of Health Roadmap for Medical Research Common Fund (UL1-DE019586, UL1-RR024139)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Keywords
- obesity, dietary intake, food addiction, food reward, food cravings, stress hormones, insulin resistance, trauma, energy homeostasis, obesity epidemic
- MeSH terms
- Food Addiction, Eating, Emotions, Feeding Behavior, Humans, Motivation, Obesity, Reward, Stress, Psychological, Weight Gain, Craving
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