Ghrelin enhances food odor conditioning in healthy humans: an fMRI study
Jung Eun Han, Johannes Frasnelli, Yashar Zeighami, Kevin Michel-Herve Larcher, Julie Boyle, Ted McConnell, Saima Malik, Marilyn Jones‐Gotman, Alain Dagher
This study shows ghrelin increases reward prediction error activity and functional connectivity during food odor conditioning in humans, enhancing cue incentive salience and potentially contributing to obesity risk.
Cell Reports · Dec 1, 2018Peer-reviewedNeuroscience