… We show here that the activation of reward systems by viewing pictures of one's romantic
partner is associated with reduced pain. A better understanding of these analgesic pathways …

… of brain activity in hungry participants of different BMIs in response to visual images of various
objects such as foods and control images… the participant's head and viewed via a 45 single-…

… The present study examined the neural systems supporting the effects of caloric density
and availability and their interaction in a 2 (high vs. low calories) by 2 (available, non-available) …

… activity in brain reward systems. … on brain food reward systems. We examined how blood
oxygen level-dependent activity within a priori regions of interest varied while viewing pictures …

… picture presentations). In the RPL study, we omitted the nonsocial control condition of the fMRI
paradigm and instead used photographs … our subjects to passively view the pictures. After …

… showing higher signal intensity. In sum, our findings indicate sustained recruitment of the
reward system … in the fact that we included the picture (eg, pictures with alcohol, food and …

… medial OFC responses while viewing food pictures than all other … on reward sensitivity,
were observed. Whether this response tendency in BED is mediated by the brain reward system …

… We first established group-average neural responses to viewing appetizing foods by performing
random-effects contrasts. For the a priori ROIs, increased activation was found in the left …

… have also reported blunted neural responses to pleasant pictures in MDD as reflected by …
guessing task and a picture viewing paradigm with neutral and pleasant pictures to assess the …

… males rate pictures of beautiful … view pictures of attractive females. Functional magnetic
resonance imaging at 3 T shows that passive viewing of beautiful female faces activates reward …