Oregon Research Institute

A Biopsychobehavioral Investigation of Withdrawal from Ultra-Processed Food in Humans

Investigators are examining the changes in the brain's reward-related regions when Ultra Processed food is removed from the diet.

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This research study builds upon the investigators' preliminary findings that women with food addiction exhibit increased neural activation in reward-related regions (e.g., striatum) to an ultra-processed (UP) food cue (i.e., chocolate milkshake). Investigators are investigating whether removing UP food from the diet leads to a similar increase in reward-related neural responses, which could pose a major obstacle to successful dietary change.

This is a sub-award with the University of Michigan from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).