Exercise Improves Executive Function and Achievement and Alters Brain Activation in Overweight Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial (2011)

Health Psychol. Author manuscript; available in PMC Jan 1, 2012. Published in final edited form as: Health Psychol. Jan 2011; 30(1): 91–98. doi:  10.1037/a0021766 PMCID: PMC3057917 NIHMSID: NIHMS245691   Catherine L. Davis, Phillip D. Tomporowski, Jennifer E. McDowell, Benjamin P. Austin, Patricia H. Miller, Nathan E. Yanasak, Jerry D. Allison, and Jack A. Naglieri Author […]

Read More… from Exercise Improves Executive Function and Achievement and Alters Brain Activation in Overweight Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial (2011)

Are Certain Foods Addictive? – A reply. (2014)

Front Psychiatry. 2014 Apr 7;5:38. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00038. Adrian Meule1,2,* In a recent article (1), Dr. Rippe highlights that lifestyle medicine practitioners need to ground their recommendations on sound scientific evidence and that this is complicated by the fact that scientific information is often distorted and conjecture is sometimes confused with proof. This includes, for example, […]

Read More… from Are Certain Foods Addictive? – A reply. (2014)

Dopamine Release Dynamics Change during Adolescence and after Voluntary Alcohol Intake (2014)

PLoS One. 2014 May 1;9(5):e96337. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0096337. Palm S, Nylander I. Author information Abstract Adolescence is associated with high impulsivity and risk taking, making adolescent individuals more inclined to use drugs. Early drug use is correlated to increased risk for substance use disorders later in life but the neurobiological basis is unclear. The brain undergoes […]

Read More… from Dopamine Release Dynamics Change during Adolescence and after Voluntary Alcohol Intake (2014)

Optogenetic and chemogenetic insights into the food addiction hypothesis (2014)

Front Behav Neurosci. 2014 Feb 28;8:57. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00057. eCollection 2014. Krashes MJ, Kravitz AV. Author information Abstract Obesity is clinically diagnosed by a simple formula based on the weight and height of a person (body mass index), but is associated with a host of other behavioral symptoms that are likely neurological in origin. In recent […]

Read More… from Optogenetic and chemogenetic insights into the food addiction hypothesis (2014)

Dopamine, time, and impulsivity in humans (2010)

J Neurosci. 2010 Jun 30;30(26):8888-96. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.6028-09.2010. Pine A1, Shiner T, Seymour B, Dolan RJ. Author information Abstract Disordered dopamine neurotransmission is implicated in mediating impulsiveness across a range of behaviors and disorders including addiction, compulsive gambling, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and dopamine dysregulation syndrome. Whereas existing theories of dopamine function highlight mechanisms based on aberrant reward […]

Read More… from Dopamine, time, and impulsivity in humans (2010)

Endogenous cortisol levels are associated with an imbalanced striatal sensitivity to monetary versus non-monetary cues in pathological gamblers (2014)

Front Behav Neurosci. 2014 Mar 25;8:83. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00083. eCollection 2014. Li Y1, Sescousse G2, Dreher JC1. Author information Abstract Pathological gambling is a behavioral addiction characterized by a chronic failure to resist the urge to gamble. It shares many similarities with drug addiction. Glucocorticoid hormones including cortisol are thought to play a key role in […]

Read More… from Endogenous cortisol levels are associated with an imbalanced striatal sensitivity to monetary versus non-monetary cues in pathological gamblers (2014)