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Received 1 July 2014
Received in revised form
15 November 2014
Accepted 2 December 2014
Available online 10 December 2014
Keywords:
Obesity
Stress
Overeating
Hippocampus
Reward
Dopamine
Memory
a b s t r a c t
Changes in food composition and availability have contributed to the dramatic increase in obesity over
the past 3040 years in developed and, increasingly, in developing countries. The brain plays a critical
role in regulating energy balance. Some human studies have demonstrated increased preference for high
fat and high sugar foods in people reporting greater stress exposure. We have examined neurochemical
changes in the brain in rodent models during the development of obesity, including the impact of obesity on cognition, reward neurocircuitry and stress responsiveness. Using supermarket foods high in fat
and sugar, we showed that such a diet leads to changes in neurotransmitters involved in the hedonic
appraisal of foods, indicative of an addiction-like capacity of foods high in fat and/or sugar. Importantly,
withdrawal of the palatable diet led to a stress-like response. Furthermore, access to this palatable diet
attenuated the physiological effects of acute stress (restraint), indicating that it could act as a comfort
food. In more chronic studies, the diet also attenuated anxiety-like behavior in rats exposed to stress
(maternal separation) early in life, but these rats may suffer greater metabolic harm than rats exposed
to the early life stressor but not provided with the palatable diet.
Impairments in cognitive function have been associated with obesity in both people and rodents.
However, as little as 1 week of exposure to a high fat, high sugar diet selectively impaired place but
not object recognition memory in the rat. Excess sugar alone had similar effects, and both diets were
linked to increased inammatory markers in the hippocampus, a critical region involved in memory.
Obesity-related inammatory changes have been found in the human brain. Ongoing work examines
interventions to prevent or reverse diet-induced cognitive impairments. These data have implications
for minimizing harm caused by unhealthy eating.
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Fig. 1. High fat diet increases oxidative stress (OS) in the hippocampus, contributing
to decreased levels of neurotrophins such as BDNF, and downstream effects, including reduced phosphorylation of synapsin 1, growth-associated protein (GAP)-43 and
(cAMP response element-binding protein) CREB.
Taken from Wu et al. (2004) with permission.
of subsequent performance in the hippocampal-dependent verbal paired associate task and the logical memory subtests of the
Wechsler memory scale revised. Experiment 2 then compared a
subset of these participants, matched on factors such as BMI and
age, but who reported the highest and lowest intakes of saturated
fats and rened sugars. Individuals with higher saturated fat and
rened sugar consumption performed worse on the hippocampaldependent memory test (visual reproduction, logical memory, and
verbal paired associates) and were less accurate at recalling what
they had previously eaten in an experimental snack meal 60 min
prior than those who consumed low amounts of fat and sugar.
Importantly, these results were obtained in a young population
with a mainly BMI healthy range, no comorbid medical conditions,
such as diabetes or cardiovascular disease, and who did not differ on measures of general cognitive function such as attention
and concentration (digit span subtest of the Wechsler adult intelligence scale fourth edition) and general intelligence (National
Adult Reading Test). These experimental results in humans therefore suggest that the effects of fat and sugar on memory may occur
independently of any effects on body weight or general health.
4.2. Effects of high energy diets on learning and memory in
rodents
Studies with rodents have conrmed that the long-term intake
of high fat/high sugar diets impair cognition. These impairments
are especially evident in tasks which require the hippocampus and
surrounding cortices, such as the Morris water maze where rodents
must use spatial relations among cues to navigate to a hidden platform (Heyward et al., 2012; McNay et al., 2010). Impairments have
also been reported on a number of other maze tasks, including
the T-maze (Farr et al., 2008; Pistell et al., 2010), the radial arm
maze (Murray et al., 2009) and the four arm maze (ValladolidAcebes et al., 2011), as well as hippocampal independent operant
lever pressing tasks (Farr et al., 2008) and conditioned discrimination (Greenwood and Winocur, 1990, 1996, 2005; Winocur and
Greenwood, 1999, 2005). Some of these studies have also identied
changes in the hippocampus which may mediate the link between
obesity and cognitive decits including oxidative stress, neuroinammation, as well as decreased levels of neurotrophic factors
(Fig. 1).
There is also emerging evidence that high energy diets can
impair memory in advance of substantial increases in body weight.
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Fig. 2. Relationship between hippocampal TNF- mRNA expression and exploration ratios on the object (left) and place (right) recognition tasks after 2021 days on the
regular (open circle), cafeteria with sugar (closed circle), regular with sugar (open triangle) and cafeteria alone (solid square) diets. n = 58 rats per group. TNF- mRNA was
negatively correlated with exploration ratios for the place task.
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