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HIGHlighted publication
Insula to ventral striatal projections mediate compulsive eating produced by intermittent access to palatable food
Samantha Spierling, Giordano de Guglielmo, Dean Kirson, Alison Kreisler, Marisa Roberto, Olivier George, and Eric Zorrilla
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The insular cortex subserves visceral-emotional functions and, based on its afferent and efferent connections, likely plays a role in the negative reinforcement so important in the compulsive intake of food and drugs characteristic of eating and substance use disorders.
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Female rats were given intermittent access to a highly palatable diet and a subset of rats demonstrated elevated progressive ratio responding, increased punished responding and irritability following withdrawal of the diet, all suggestive of increased compulsive-like behavior.
HIGHlighted publication
Insula to ventral striatal projections mediate compulsive eating produced by intermittent access to palatable food
Samantha Spierling, Giordano de Guglielmo, Dean Kirson, Alison Kreisler, Marisa Roberto, Olivier George, and Eric Zorrilla
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The insular cortex subserves visceral-emotional functions and, based on its afferent and efferent connections, likely plays a role in the negative reinforcement so important in the compulsive intake of food and drugs characteristic of eating and substance use disorders.
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Female rats were given intermittent access to a highly palatable diet and a subset of rats demonstrated elevated progressive ratio responding, increased punished responding and irritability following withdrawal of the diet, all suggestive of increased compulsive-like behavior.
Congratulations to our 2022 Larry Parsons Travel Award
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The Larry Parsons Travel Award in Alcohol and Addiction Research has been given to four well-deserving postdoctoral trainees to supplement their attendance of the 2022 Research Society on Alcoholism annual meeting. The meeting was held in-person in Orlando, Florida on June 25th through 29th.
