Functional elucidation of the endogenous opioid system temporally paralleled the creation
and growth of the journal, Peptides, under the leadership of its founding editor, Dr. Abba …

Endogenous opioid signaling contributes to the neural control of food intake. Opioid
signaling is thought to regulate palatability, the reward value of a food item as determined by …

The discovery of opiate receptors and endogenous opioid peptides within the central
nervous system has resulted in a number of speculations concerning the physiological …

This report summarizes the background and specific objectives for a symposium on the
neurobiology of nonhomeostatic eating and drug abuse that was held at the 2004 Annual …

In recent years there has been a strong tendency for hedonic processes of appetite control
to be regarded as exerting a more powerful influence over realworld food consumption than …

Nucleus accumbens μ-opioid stimulation leads to robust increases in the intake of highly
palatable foods, such as a high-fat diet. While interactions between opioids and certain …

Given the unabated obesity problem, there is increasing appreciation of expressions like
“my eyes are bigger than my stomach,” and recent studies in rodents and humans suggest …

Most of the evidence for or against food addiction in humans focuses on similarities between
food craving and drug craving. There are numerous parallels in neuroanatomy …

The development of obesity has often been linked with compulsive overeating of good-
tasting foods, particularly sweets and desserts. To the obese, it is claimed" many of the most …

First, work presented in this review strongly supports the notion that food addiction is a real
phenomenon. Second, although food and drugs of abuse act on the same central networks …