date:Jan 11, 2013
rnal of the American Medical Association.
Glucose also reduced activation in the insula and striatum, other brain regions that regulate appetite, motivation, and reward processing, while fructose did not, the researchers wrote.
In an accompanying editorial, Dr. Jonathan Purnell and Damien Fair of Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, said the findings support the conceptual framework that when the human brain is exposed to fructose, neurobiological pathways involved in appetite reg