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Sugar Overconsumption during Adolescence Selectively Alters Motivation and Reward Function in Adult Rats

Leandro F. Vendruscolo, Aliou B. Gueye, Muriel Darnaudéry, Serge H. Ahmed, Martine Cador

PLoS ONE · 2010 · 92 citations · 36 references

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Abstract

Sugar overconsumption induces a developmental stage-specific chronic depression in reward processing that may contribute to an increase in the vulnerability to reward-related psychiatric disorders.

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