Acute stress potentiates brain response to milkshake as a function of body weight and chronic stress

Autor: Dana M. Small, Rajita Sinha, K.J. Rudenga
Rok vydání: 2012
Předmět:
Endocrinology
Diabetes and Metabolism

Medicine (miscellaneous)
Stress potentiates brain response to food in obese with chronic stress
Weight Gain
Somatosensory system
Brain mapping
Basal Ganglia
Body Mass Index
0302 clinical medicine
Thalamus
Chronic stress
Risk factors for obesity
2. Zero hunger
Brain Mapping
0303 health sciences
neuroimaging
Nutrition and Dietetics
Obesity and the brain
Middle Aged
Amygdala
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Milk
medicine.anatomical_structure
Acute Disease
Female
medicine.symptom
psychological phenomena and processes
Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Body weight
Article
Beverages
Food Preferences
03 medical and health sciences
Reward
Internal medicine
medicine
Animals
Humans
Obesity
Acute stress
030304 developmental biology
business.industry
Somatosensory Cortex
Endocrinology
nervous system
Chronic Disease
business
Weight gain
Body mass index
Stress
Psychological

030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: International journal of obesity (2005)
ISSN: 1476-5497
0307-0565
DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2012.39
Popis: Objective Stress is associated with increased intake of palatable foods and with weight gain, particularly in overweight women. Stress, food, and body mass index (BMI) have been separately shown to impact amygdala activity. However, it is not known whether stress influences amygdala responses to palatable foods, and whether this response is associated with chronic stress or BMI. Design Fourteen overweight and obese women participated in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scan as they consumed a palatable milkshake during script-driven autobiographical guided imagery of stressful and neutral-relaxing scenarios. Results We report that a network including insula, somatomotor mouth area, ventral striatum, and thalamus responds to milkshake receipt, but none of these areas are impacted by stress. In contrast, while the left amygdala responds to milkshake irrespective of condition, the right amygdala responds to milkshake only under stressful conditions. Moreover, this right amygdala response is positively associated with basal cortisol levels, an objective measure of chronic stress. We also found a positive relationship between BMI and stress related increased response to milkshake in the orbitofrontal cortex. Conclusions These results demonstrate that acute stress potentiates response to food in the right amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex as a function of chronic stress and body weight, respectively. This suggests that the influence of acute stress in potentiating amygdala and OFC responses to food is dependent upon individual factors like BMI and chronic stress. We conclude that BMI and chronic stress play a significant role in brain response to food and in stress-related eating.
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