Dopamine and appetite

Dopamine plays a crucial role in regulating appetite and ingestive behavior, primarily through its involvement in the mesolimbic and nigrostriatal systems. Dopamine signaling drives reinforcement produces incentive salience and encodes learning-related prediction error signals, and conveys causal as...

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Published inHandbook of Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 32; pp. 395 - 405
Main Authors Saenz, Camila, Borgland, Stephanie L.
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Science & Technology 2025
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Basal ganglia
Dopamine
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Food intake
Food-related cues
Ingestive behavior
Motivation
Ventral tegmental area
Basal ganglia
Dopamine
Motivation
Food intake
Food-related cues
Ingestive behavior
Ventral tegmental area
Flavor
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ISBN9780443298677
044329867X
ISSN1569-7339
DOI10.1016/B978-0-443-29867-7.00032-3

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Summary:Dopamine plays a crucial role in regulating appetite and ingestive behavior, primarily through its involvement in the mesolimbic and nigrostriatal systems. Dopamine signaling drives reinforcement produces incentive salience and encodes learning-related prediction error signals, and conveys causal associations. Thus, dopamine is a key factor in various processes required for ingestive behavior because, for survival, it is important to reinforce the eating of energy-dense foods, to learn and pay attention to cues that predict food in the environment, and to translate this desire into action for food. Here, we discuss the roles of dopamine in encoding environmental and interoceptive stimuli and associated neural circuits that drive the motivation to eat.
ISBN:9780443298677
044329867X
ISSN:1569-7339
DOI:10.1016/B978-0-443-29867-7.00032-3