Funding Information: GR was funded by doctoral fellowships from Universidade de Lisboa (BD/2015Call) and Funda\u00E7\u00E3o para a Ci\u00EAncia e Tecnologia (FCT; https:// www.fct.pt/; SFRH/BD/128783/2017). GR and AJOM were supported by the Champalimaud Foundation through a Clinical Kickstarter grant (https://www.fchampalimaud.org/). ABF was supported by a postdoctoral fellowship (SFRH/BPD/880972/2012) and is s...
OK; There is significant evidence linking a 'reward deficiency syndrome' (RDS), comprising decreased availability of striatal dopamine D2-like receptors (DD2lR) and addiction-like behaviors underlying substance use disorders and obesity. Regarding obesity, a systematic review of the literature with a meta-analysis of such data is lacking. Following a systematic review of the literature, we performed random-effe...
Funding Information: AJO-M was national coordinator for Portugal of a non-interventional study (EDMS-ERI-143085581, 4.0) to characterize a Treatment-Resistant Depression Cohort in Europe, sponsored by Janssen-Cilag, Ltd (2019–2020), is recipient of a grant from Schuhfried GmBH for norming and validation of cognitive tests, and is national coordinator for Portugal of trials of psilocybin therapy for treatment-re...
BACKGROUND: Reward sensitivity has been proposed as a potential mediator of outcomes for bariatric surgery. OBJECTIVES: We aimed to determine whether gustatory and psychometric measures of reward-related feeding are predictors of bariatric-induced weight loss. METHODS: A multicenter longitudinal cohort study was conducted in patients scheduled for bariatric surgery (surgical group), assessed at baseline and 2 f...
Oliveira-Maia was supported by grants from the BIAL Foundation (176/10), and from Fundaçao ˜ para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (FCT) through a Junior Research and Career Development Award from the Harvard Medical School Portugal Program (HMSP/ICJ/0020/2011) and grant PTDC/MED-NEU/31331/2017; and is funded by a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and...
Introduction: Hypomania symptoms are best described as a continuum, ranging beyond Bipolar Spectrum Disorders (BSD). Other nosological entities, such as major depressive disorder, schizoaffective disorder, or borderline personality disorder, may also share symptoms with BSD, raising challenges for differential diagnosis. While the Hypomania Checklist-32 is one of the most widely used tools for screening hypoman...
Obesity-associated differences in hedonic hunger, while consistently reported, have not been adequately quantified, with most studies failing to demonstrate strong correlations between Body Mass Index (BMI) and hedonic hunger indicators. Here, we quantified and assessed the nature of the relationship between hedonic hunger and BMI, in a cross-sectional study using the Portuguese version of the PFS (P-PFS) to me...