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Newcastle Herald
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Scanning the brain for food addiction

Brain Food: MRI scans will take highly detailed pictures of the structures of people's brains, as they look at food images.

University of Newcastle researchers will go inside the brains of people for a study on addictive overeating.

Participants will be shown images of food, while an MRI machine measures how their brains respond. The scans will take highly detailed pictures of brain structure and determine which areas are activated or not.

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