Daniel A N Barbosa, Fiene Marie Kuijper, Jeffrey Duda, Allan R Wang, Samuel C D Cartmell, Sabir Saluja, Tricia Cunningham, Rajat S Shivacharan, Mahendra T Bhati, Debra L Safer, James D Lock, Robert C Malenka, Ricardo de Oliveira-Souza, Nolan R Williams, Murray Grossman, James C Gee, Jennifer A McNab, Cara Bohon, Casey H Halpern
The ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) to nucleus accumbens (NAc) circuit has been implicated in impulsive reward-seeking. This disinhibition has been implicated in obesity and often manifests as binge eating, which is associated with worse treatment outcomes and comorbidities. It remains unclear whether the vmPFC-NAc circuit is perturbed in impulsive eaters with obesity. Initially, we analyzed publicly available, high-resolution, normative imaging data to localize where vmPFC structural connections converged within the NAc...
June 14, 2022: Molecular Psychiatry