| Chapter title |
Behavioral Neuroscience of Motivation
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|---|---|
| Chapter number | 381 |
| Book title |
Behavioral Neuroscience of Motivation
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| Published in |
Current topics in behavioral neurosciences, September 2015
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| DOI | 10.1007/7854_2015_381 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Book ISBNs |
978-3-31-926933-7, 978-3-31-926935-1
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| Authors |
Woods, Stephen C, Begg, Denovan P, Stephen C. Woods, Denovan P. Begg, Woods, Stephen C., Begg, Denovan P. |
| Editors |
Eleanor H. Simpson, Peter D. Balsam |
| Abstract |
Although food intake is necessary to provide energy for all bodily activities, considering food intake as a motivated behavior is complex. Rather than being a simple unconditioned reflex to energy need, eating is mediated by diverse factors. These include homeostatic signals such as those related to body fat stores, to food available and being eaten, and to circulating energy-rich compounds like glucose and fatty acids. Eating is also greatly influenced by non-homeostatic signals that convey information related to learning and experience, hedonics, stress, the social situation, opportunity, and many other factors. Recent developments identifying the intricate nature of the relationships between homeostatic and non-homeostatic influences significantly add to the complexity underlying the neural basis of the motivation to eat. The future of research in the field of food intake would seem to lie in the identification of the neural circuitry and interactions between homeostatic and non-homeostatic influences. |
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