Blar i Bergen Open Research Archive på forfatter "Sailer, Uta"
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Ghrelin is related to lower brain reward activation during touch
Pfabigan, Daniela M.; Frogner, Erik Rimestad; Schéle, Erik; Thorsby, Per Medbøe; Skålhegg, Bjørn Steen; Dickson, Suzanne L.; Sailer, Uta (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The gut hormone ghrelin drives food motivation and increases food intake, but it is also involved in the anticipation of and response to rewards other than food. This pre-registered study investigated how naturally varying ... -
Hungry for compliments? Ghrelin is not associated with neural responses to social rewards or their pleasantness
Sailer, Uta; Riva, Federica; Lieberz, Jana; Campbell-Meiklejohn, Daniel; Scheele, Dirk; Pfabigan, Daniela Melitta (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)The stomach-derived hormone ghrelin motivates food search and stimulates food consumption, with highest plasma concentrations before a meal and lowest shortly after. However, ghrelin also appears to affect the value of ... -
Single-centre, non-randomised clinical trial at a tertiary care centre to investigate 1-year changes in social experiences and biomarkers of well-being after bariatric surgery in individuals with severe obesity: protocol for the Bariatric Surgery and Social Experiences (BaSES) study
Pfabigan, Daniela M.; Hertel, Jens Kristoffer; Svanevik, Marius; Lindberg, Morten; Sailer, Uta; Hjelmesæth, Jøran Sture (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Introduction Obesity is linked to increased loneliness and less enjoyment of social interactions. While bariatric surgery is the most effective treatment targeting severe obesity, there is limited understanding as to whether ... -
Social and non-social feedback stimuli lead to comparable levels of reward learning and reward responsiveness in an online probabilistic reward task
Sailer, Uta; Wurm, Franz; Pfabigan, Daniela M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Social stimuli seem to be processed more easily and efficiently than non-social stimuli. The current study tested whether social feedback stimuli improve reward learning in a probabilistic reward task (PRT), in which one ...