Adolescents are the highest consumers of sugar sweetened drinks. Excessive consumption
of such drinks is a likely contributor to the development of obesity and may be associated …

Background: The food addiction (FA) model is receiving increasing interest from the
scientific community. Available empirical evidence suggests that this condition may play an …

d-Cycloserine (DCS), a co-agonist at the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor, has
proven to be an effective adjunct to cognitive behavioral therapies that utilize extinction. This …

The worldwide obesity epidemic poses an enormous and growing threat to public health.
However, the neurobehavioral mechanisms of overeating and obesity are incompletely …

Rationale Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) gradually emerges and reaches clinical
significance during early adulthood. Whether a predisposition for OCD manifests as binge …

The authors comment on the recently proposed food addiction spectrum that represents a
theoretical model to understand the continuum between several conditions ranging from …

The anhedonia-like behaviors following about 1-week withdrawal from morphine were
examined in the present study. Male rats were pretreated with either a binge-like morphine …

In this chapter, we propose that pathologies can be understood as chronic excess or lack of
emotions, which in essence, in our view, refer to the presence of “vicious” or frequent lack of …

Elevated glucocorticoid levels and sign tracking (ST) in Pavlovian conditioning are potential
biomarkers of compulsive behaviors such as addiction. As overeating is sometimes viewed …

Rationale The negative affective state, eg, anhedonia, emerges after abstinence from
abused drugs may be linked to the motivational processes of drug craving and relapse …