A view of obesity as a learning and memory disorder

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A view of obesity as a learning and memory disorder

A view of obesity as a learning and memory disorder. Davidson, Terry L.; Tracy, Andrea L.; Schier, Lindsey A.; Swithers, Susan E. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Learning and Cognition, Vol 40(3), Jul 2014, 261-279. doi: Link Citation

This articles describes how a cascade of associative relationships involving the sensory properties of foods, the nutritional consequences of their consumption, and perceived internal states may play an important role in the learned control of energy intake and body weight regulation. In addition, we describe ways in which dietary factors in the current environment can promote excess energy intake and body weight gain by degrading these relationships or by interfering with the neural substrates that underlie the ability of animals to use them to predict the nutritive or energetic consequences of intake. We propose that an expanded appreciation of the diversity of orosensory, gastrointestinal, and energy state signals about which animals learn, combined with a greater understanding of predictive relationships in which these cues are embedded, will help generate new information and novel approaches to addressing the current global problems of obesity and metabolic disease. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved)

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