Nature Neuroscience8, 555 - 560 (2005)
Published online: 26 April 2005; | doi:10.1038/nn1452
How can drug addiction help us understand obesity?
Nora D Volkow
& Roy A Wise
Nora D. Volkow and Roy A. Wise are at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. nvolkow@nida.nih.gov
To the degree that drugs and food activate common reward circuitry in the brain, drugs offer powerful tools for understanding the neural circuitry that mediates food-motivated habits and how this circuitry may be hijacked to cause appetitive behaviors to go awry.
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