A Systematic Review and Activation Likelihood Estimation Meta-Analysis of fMRI Studies on Sweet Taste in Humans

• Published in: The Journal of nutrition Vol. 150; no. 6; pp. 1619 - 1630
• Main Authors: Roberts, Carl A, Giesbrecht, Timo, Fallon, Nicholas, Thomas, Anna, Mela, David J, Kirkham, Tim C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.06.2020; Oxford University Press; American Institute of Nutrition
• Subjects: Activation analysis; Adults; Body weight; Brain; Brain mapping; Eating behavior; fMRI; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Globus pallidus; Glucose; Humans; Information processing; Ingestive Behavior and Neurosciences; Likelihood Functions; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Medical imaging; Meta-analysis; Neuroimaging; Postcentral gyrus; Reinforcement; reward; Sensitivity analysis; Sucrose; Sugar; sugars; Sweet taste; Sweeteners; Sweetening Agents; Systematic review; Taste; Taste stimuli; reward; fMRI; sugars; sweet taste; MA; FWE; meta-analysis; MNI; ALE; ROI

The reward value of palatable foods is often cited as an important influence on eating behaviors, including intake of sugars. However, human neuroimaging studies have generated conflicting evidence on the basic neural representation of taste and reward responses to caloric sweeteners (sucrose and gl...