Neural circuits underlying the reinstatement of food reward-seeking

这个项目旨在绘制出恢复美味食物行为背后的神经回路和机制。尽管有各种各样的饮食策略来促进肥胖/超重个体的减肥，但环境食物线索的广泛存在可能会恢复令人愉快的觅食行为，从而否定减肥努力。该项目的预期成果是更好地机械地理解恢复食物奖励行为，以帮助减轻国家肥胖的经济负担，并提高减肥战略的成本效益。

This project aims to map out the neural circuits and mechanisms underlying the reinstatement of palatable food-seeking behaviour. Despite various dietary strategies to promote weight loss in obese/overweight individuals, the wide availability of environmental food cues can reinstate palatable food-seeking behaviours, thus negating weight loss efforts. The intended outcome of this project is a better mechanistic understanding of the reinstatement of food reward-seeking behaviour to help relieve the national economic burden of obesity and to improve the cost-effectiveness of weight loss strategies.