Obesity rates have skyrocketed over the past few decades. In the United States,
approximately 35% of adults are now considered obese, with more than 60% categorized as …

The ability to resist the urge to eat requires the proper functioning of neuronal circuits
involved in top-down control to oppose the conditioned responses that predict reward from …

The endogenous opioid system, initially characterized over 30 years ago, is a primary
example of a multifunctional neural system involved in a wide range of basic homeostatic …

Endogenous opioids and µ-opioid receptors (MORs) have long been implicated in the
mechanism of appetite control and, in particular, hedonic processes associated with food …

Circuits that participate in specific subcomponents of feeding (eg, gustatory perception,
peripheral feedback relevant to satiety and energy balance, reward coding, etc.) are found at …

The present study was designed to further investigate the nature of feeding induced by
opioid stimulation of the nucleus accumbens through an examination of the effects of intra …

Binge eating, a central feature of multiple eating disorders, is characterized by excessive
consumption occurring during discrete, often brief, intervals. Highly palatable foods play an …

Over the past three decades, obesity has become a major public health crisis in the United
States. The prevalence of obesity in the United States and in other parts of the world has led …

Endogenous opioid peptides within the nucleus accumbens, a forebrain site critical for the
regulation of reward-related behavior, are believed to play an important role in the control of …

Consummatory behavior is driven by both caloric and emotional need, and a wide variety of
animal models have been useful in research on the systems that drive consumption of food …