The purpose of this review is to spark integrative thinking in the area of eating behaviors by
critically examining research on exemplary constructs in this area. The eating behaviors …

In recent years the ventral pallidum has become a focus of great research interest as a
mechanism of reward and incentive motivation. As a major output for limbic signals, the …

Individual differences in sensitivity of neural reward systems to external appetitive cues may
determine normal and pathological eating behaviour. In the current study we investigated …

Objective To investigate behavioral inhibition in individuals with binge eating disorder (BED)
compared with overweight and obese individuals without BED (No‐BED). Method …

Objective: Starting from a model of impaired response inhibition and salience attribution for
addictive behaviour we investigated whether obese participants show a greater impairment …

Neuroimaging studies have shown that, despite the abstractness of music, it may mimic
biologically rewarding stimuli (eg, food) in its ability to engage the brain's reward circuitry …

The ability of Cannabis sativa to promote eating has been documented for many centuries,
with the drug reported by its users to promote strong cravings for, and an intensification of …

According to the influential theory of Berridge, 1996, Berridge, 2009, food reward comprises
two components: food 'liking'and 'wanting', with 'liking'referring to the pleasure derived from …

The main objective of this study was to investigate, by means of event-related potentials
(ERPs), whether obese individuals process food-related information differently as compared …

It has been suggested that for overweight and obese individuals high‐calorie foods are
more reinforcing than for normal‐weight individuals. It has already been shown that in …