Overeating, obesity, and dopamine receptors.
New results in rats show that compulsive overfeeding can lead to deficits in the brain reward circuit. Interestingly, these deficits resemble those that result from drug addiction.
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Mahapatra
D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D004298:Dopamine / Q000502:physiology; D004558:Electric Stimulation; D006801:Humans; D006963:Hyperphagia / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009765:Obesity / Q000503:physiopathology*; D011954:Receptors, Dopamine / Q000187:drug effects*; D017448:Receptors, Dopamine D2 / Q000502:physiology; D012201:Reward
D011954:Receptors, Dopamine; D017448:Receptors, Dopamine D2; D004298:Dopamine