Dopamine (DA) regulates emotional and motivational behavior through the mesolimbic
dopaminergic pathway. Changes in DA mesolimbic neurotransmission have been found to …

Food is a potent natural reward and food intake is a complex process. Reward and
gratification associated with food consumption leads to dopamine (DA) production, which in …

Functional, molecular and genetic neuroimaging has highlighted the existence of brain
anomalies and neural vulnerability factors related to obesity and eating disorders such as …

Epidemiological evidence supports a link between sleep loss and obesity. However, the
detrimental impact of sleep deprivation on central brain mechanisms governing appetitive …

Addiction professionals and the public are recognizing that certain nonsubstance behaviors—
such as gambling, Internet use, video-game playing, sex, eating, and shopping—bear …

The concept of personal responsibility has been central to social, legal, and political
approaches to obesity. It evokes language of blame, weakness, and vice and is a leading …

The legitimacy of nonsubstance addictions has received increased attention from clinicians,
researchers and the general population as more and more individuals report symptoms …

Obesity presents a major health hazard of the 21st century. It promotes co-morbid diseases
such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, obstructive sleep apnea, certain types of cancer, and …

Obesity as a result of overeating as well as a number of well described eating disorders has
been accurately considered to be a world-wide epidemic. Recently a number of theories …

Rates of obesity are higher than normal across a range of psychiatric disorders, including
major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders. While the …