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Secondary effects of obesity on reward circuitry and hypothalamic energy balance regulation. Palatable and high-fat diets can lead to obesity with or without hyperphagia. Increased inflammatory, mitochondrial, and oxidative stress signaling within the brain leads to neural/microglial alterations impinging on the hypothalamus and corticolimbic systems involved in reward functions, accelerating the development of obesity.
