Abstract “Food addiction” has become a focus of interest for researchers attempting to
explain certain processes and/or behaviors that may contribute to the development of …

Drug addiction and obesity appear to share several properties. Both can be defined as
disorders in which the saliency of a specific type of reward (food or drug) becomes …

Recently published work and emerging research efforts have suggested that the olfactory
system is intimately linked with the endocrine systems that regulate or modify energy …

The gut/brain peptide, glucagon like peptide 1 (GLP-1), suppresses food intake by acting on
receptors located in key energy balance regulating CNS areas, the hypothalamus or the …

ABSTRACT Introduction: Anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN) and binge eating
disorder (BED) are the primary eating disorders (EDs). The only psychopharmacological …

Pain management in opioid abusers engenders ethical and practical difficulties for
clinicians, often resulting in pain mismanagement. Although chronic opioid administration …

Central proopiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons form a potent anorexigenic network, but our
understanding of the integration of this hypothalamic circuit throughout the central nervous …

Food reward, not hunger, is the main driving force behind eating in the modern obesogenic
environment. Palatable foods, generally calorie-dense and rich in sugar/fat, are thus readily …

BACKGROUND. Food intake is guided by homeostatic needs and by the reward value of
food, yet the exact relation between the two remains unclear. The aim of this study was to …

Since the late 1970s obesity prevalence and per capita food intake in the USA have
increased dramatically. Understanding the mechanisms underlying the hyperphagia that …