[HTML][HTML] A systematic review and meta-analysis finds increased blood levels of all forms of ghrelin in both restricting and binge-eating/purging subtypes of anorexia …

M Seidel, S Markmann Jensen, D Healy, A Dureja… - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is a severe psychiatric condition associated with high mortality and
chronicity. The hunt for state, trait, subtyping, and prognostic biomarkers is ongoing and the …

[HTML][HTML] A randomized controlled experimental medicine study of ghrelin in value-based decision making

M Pietrzak, A Yngve, JP Hamilton… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
BACKGROUND The stomach-derived hormone ghrelin stimulates appetite, but the ghrelin
receptor is also expressed in brain circuits involved in motivation and reward. We examined …

A review of effort-based decision-making in eating and weight disorders

SL Brassard, IM Balodis - Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Effort-based decision-making provides a framework to understand the mental computations
estimating the amount of work (“effort”) required to obtain a reward. The aim of the current …

Eating disorders during the covid-19 pandemic

J Feinmann - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
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[HTML][HTML] From desire to dread—a neurocircuitry based model for food avoidance in anorexia nervosa

GKW Frank - Journal of clinical medicine, 2021 - mdpi.com
Anorexia nervosa is a severe psychiatric illness associated with food avoidance. Animal
models from Berridge et al. over the past decade showed that environmental ambience …

Cognitive mechanisms underlying decision making involving risk of explicit punishment in male and female rats

LM Truckenbrod, EM Cooper, CA Orsini - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral …, 2023 - Springer
Individuals engage in the process of risk-based decision making on a daily basis to navigate
various aspects of life. There are, however, individual differences in this form of decision …

More by stick than by carrot: A reinforcement learning style rooted in the medial frontal cortex in anorexia nervosa.

F Bernardoni, JA King, D Geisler… - Journal of Abnormal …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Anorexia nervosa (AN) is characterized by a relentless pursuit of thinness, despite serious
implications for health and social relations. In a previous study wielding the power of …

Increased self‐reported delay of gratification in acutely underweight, but not remitted anorexia nervosa

T Weinert, JA King, L Böldt, F Gronow… - … Journal of Eating …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Laboratory experiments using delay discounting tasks have delivered some
evidence of an increased capacity to delay reward in anorexia nervosa (AN). Overall …

Mouse‐cursor trajectories reveal reduced contextual influence on decision conflict during delay discounting in anorexia nervosa

F Bernardoni, JA King, I Hellerhoff… - … Journal of Eating …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The capacity of individuals with anorexia nervosa (AN) to forgo immediate food
rewards in their long‐term pursuit of thinness is thought to reflect elevated self‐control …

Cocaine intake correlates with risk-taking behavior and affects estrous cycling in female Sprague-Dawley rats

LM Truckenbrod, EM Cooper, AR Wheeler… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Navigating complex decisions and considering their relative risks and rewards is an
important cognitive ability necessary for survival. However, use of and dependence on illicit …