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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Brain reward system"”.
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Reward abnormalities among women with bulimia nervosa: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study
The current study measured BOLD brain response using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to explore the hypothesis that women with bulimia nervosa have a hyper-responsivity of the mesolimbic reward system. Women with bulimia nervosa and healthy controls (N=24) completed an fMRI paradigm …
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Anorexigenic effects of naltrexone in rats
… are key neuropeptides that propel feeding for reward. Importantly, blocking the opioid receptors in laboratory animals and humans decreases intake of and preference for those diets that are highly palatable. One of those opioid receptor blockers, a non-selective antagonist naltrexone (NTX), has …