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The orbitofrontal cortex, food reward, body weight and obesity

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OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsab044

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taste; olfaction; food reward; food

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The orbitofrontal cortex is crucial in representing the reward value and subjective pleasantness of food in primates, including humans. In rodents, reward systems operate differently with reward value reflected earlier in processing systems. Social and cognitive factors influence the reward value of food represented in the orbitofrontal cortex. Functional connectivity between the orbitofrontal cortex and ventromedial prefrontal cortex is correlated with liking for food and body mass index.
In primates including humans, the orbitofrontal cortex is the key brain region representing the reward value and subjective pleasantness of the sight, smell, taste and texture of food. At stages of processing before this, in the insular taste cortex and inferior temporal visual cortex, the identity of the food is represented, but not its affective value. In rodents, the whole organisation of reward systems appears to be different, with reward value reflected earlier in processing systems. In primates and humans, the amygdala is overshadowed by the great development of the orbitofrontal cortex. Social and cognitive factors exert a top-down influence on the orbitofrontal cortex, to modulate the reward value of food that is represented in the orbitofrontal cortex. Recent evidence shows that even in the resting state, with no food present as a stimulus, the liking for food, and probably as a consequence of that body mass index, is correlated with the functional connectivity of the orbitofrontal cortex and ventromedial prefrontal cortex. This suggests that individual differences in these orbitofrontal cortex reward systems contribute to individual differences in food pleasantness and obesity. Implications of how these reward systems in the brain operate for understanding, preventing and treating obesity are described.

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