BEHAVIOR AND PSYCHOLOGY and are dissociable under several circumstances. For
example, drug-addicted individuals report a greater desire to consume a drug over time …

Publisher Summary Obesity is caused by the consumption of excess calories. As such, it can
be viewed as a failure of homeostatic systems that control body weight or, more …

What are the neural substrates of food reward? Are reward and pleasure identical? Can
taste pleasure be assessed in animals? Is reward necessarily conscious? These questions …

Food intake is regulated by 2 complementary drives: the homeostatic and hedonic
pathways. The homeostatic pathway controls energy balance by increasing the motivation to …

Ingestion of different nutrients, such as fats and sugars, normally produces different effects
on physiology, the brain, and behavior. However, they do share certain neural pathways for …

Current train of thought in appetite research is favouring an interest in non-homeostatic or
hedonic (reward) mechanisms in relation to overconsumption and energy balance. This …

It is becoming clearer how neurobiological mechanisms generate 'liking'and
'wanting'components of food reward. Mesocorticolimbic mechanisms that enhance …

One of the defining characteristics of the research of Ann E. Kelley was her recognition that
the neuroscience underlying basic learning and motivation processes also shed significant …

The growing rates of obesity have prompted comparisons between the uncontrolled intake
of food and drugs; however, an evaluation of the equivalence of food-and drug-related …

Overconsumption of high caloric food plays an important role in the etiology of obesity.
Several factors drive such hedonic feeding. High caloric food is often palatable. In addition …