期刊
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MEDICINE
卷 10, 期 11, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/jcm10112228
关键词
anorexia nervosa; dopamine; reward; fear; conditioning; cortex; striatum; nucleus accumbens; hypothalamus
资金
- National Institute of Mental Health [MH103436, MH096777, MH080135]
Research indicates that the environmental ambience and brain neural circuitry play crucial roles in the food avoidance behaviors of anorexia nervosa. Animal and human studies support fear conditioning to food in anorexia nervosa patients, as well as alterations in brain function and dopamine response.
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, pleasant or fear inducing, can trigger either appetitive (desire) or avoidance (dread) behaviors in animals via frontal cortex, nucleus accumbens dopamine D1 and D2 receptors, and hypothalamus. Those mechanisms could be relevant for understanding anorexia nervosa. However, models that translate animal research to explain the psychopathology of anorexia nervosa are sparse. This article reviews animal and human research to find evidence for whether this model can explain food avoidance behaviors in anorexia nervosa. Research on anorexia nervosa suggests fear conditioning to food, activation of the corticostriatal brain circuitry, sensitization of ventral striatal dopamine response, and alterations in hypothalamic function. The results support the applicability of the animal neurocircuitry derived model and provide directions to further study the pathophysiology that underlies anorexia nervosa.
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