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Differential brain responses to satiation in obese and lean men

JF Gautier, K Chen, AD Salbe, D Bandy, RE Pratley, M Heiman, E Ravussin, EM Reiman and PA Tataranni
Clinical Diabetes and Nutrition Section, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Phoenix 85016, USA.

Knowledge of how the brain contributes to the regulation of food intake in humans is limited. We used positron emission tomography and measures of regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) (a marker of neuronal activity) to describe the functional anatomy of satiation (i.e., the response to a liquid meal) in the context of extreme hunger (36-h fast) in 11 obese (BMI > or =35 kg/m2, age 27+/-5 years, weight 115+/-11 kg, 38+/-7% body fat; mean +/- SD) and 11 lean (BMI < or =25 kg/m2, age 35+/-8 years, weight 73+/-9 kg, 19+/-6% body fat) men. As in lean men, satiation in obese men produced significant increases in rCBF in the vicinity of the ventromedial and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and significant decreases in rCBF in the vicinity of the limbic/paralimbic areas (i.e., hippocampal formation, temporal pole), striatum (i.e., caudate, putamen), precuneus, and cerebellum. However, rCBF increases in the prefrontal cortex were significantly greater in obese men than in lean men (P < 0.005). rCBF decreases in limbic/paralimbic areas, temporal and occipital cortex, and cerebellum were also significantly greater in obese men than in lean men (P < 0.005), whereas rCBF decreases in the hypothalamus and thalamus were attenuated in obese men compared with lean men (P < 0.05). This study raises the possibility that the brain responses to a meal in the prefrontal areas (which may be involved in the inhibition of inappropriate response tendencies) and limbic/paralimbic areas (commonly associated with the regulation of emotion) may be different in obese and lean men. Additional studies are required to investigate how these differential responses are related to the pathophysiology of obesity.
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