Behavioral models are central to behavioral neuroscience. To study the neural mechanisms
of maladaptive behaviors (including binge eating and drug addiction), it is essential to …

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

Drug addiction is a neuropsychiatric disorder with grave personal consequences that has an
extraordinary global economic impact. Despite decades of research, the options available to …

The growing rates of obesity have prompted comparisons between the uncontrolled intake
of food and drugs; however, an evaluation of the equivalence of food-and drug-related …

Why does moderate exposure to a drug reward make natural rewards increasingly attractive
to organisms, whereas prolonged exposure to the same drug reward has the opposite …

Motivated behavior is influenced by neural networks that integrate physiological needs.
Here, we describe coordinated regulation of hypothalamic feeding and midbrain reward …

Highly palatable foods and substance of abuse have intersecting neurobiological, metabolic
and behavioral effects relevant for understanding vulnerability to conditions related to food …

In an attempt to resolve controversy regarding the causal contributions of mesolimbic
dopamine (DA) systems to reward, we evaluate the three main competing explanatory …

For adaptive and efficient decision making, it must be possible to select between habitual
alternative courses of action. However, research in rodents suggests that, even in the …

This book addresses a fundamental question about the nature of behavior: how does the
brain process reward and makes decisions when facing multiple options? The book …