From passive overeating to “food addiction”: a spectrum of compulsion and severity

C Davis - International Scholarly Research Notices, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
A psychobiological dimension of eating behaviour is proposed, which is anchored at the low
end by energy intake that is relatively well matched to energy output and is reflected by a …

Compulsive overeating as an addictive behavior: overlap between food addiction and binge eating disorder

C Davis - Current Obesity Reports, 2013 - Springer
With the rise in worldwide rates of obesity in the past few decades, scientists and clinicians
have focused considerable attention on trying to understand the causes of excessive and …

Food addiction and binge eating: lessons learned from animal models

MG Novelle, C Diéguez - Nutrients, 2018 - mdpi.com
The feeding process is required for basic life, influenced by environment cues and tightly
regulated according to demands of the internal milieu by regulatory brain circuits. Although …

A commentary on the associations among 'food addiction', binge eating disorder, and obesity: Overlapping conditions with idiosyncratic clinical features

C Davis - Appetite, 2017 - Elsevier
This commentary discusses the evidence linking patterns of compulsive overeating, such as
binge eating and grazing, with a putative psychopathological condition known commonly as …

Evidence that 'food addiction'is a valid phenotype of obesity

C Davis, C Curtis, RD Levitan, JC Carter, AS Kaplan… - Appetite, 2011 - Elsevier
There is growing evidence of 'food addiction'(FA) in sugar-and fat-bingeing animals. The
purpose of this study was to investigate the legitimacy of this disorder in the human …

Binge eating, overeating and food addiction: Approaches for examining food overconsumption in laboratory rodents

RM Brown, MH James - Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Overeating ranges in severity from casual overindulgence to an overwhelming drive to
consume certain foods. At its most extreme, overeating can manifest as clinical diagnoses …

Pathological overeating: emerging evidence for a compulsivity construct

CF Moore, V Sabino, GF Koob, P Cottone - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2017 - nature.com
Compulsive eating behavior is a transdiagnostic construct that is characteristic of medical
and psychiatric conditions such as forms of obesity and eating disorders. Although feeding …

How prevalent is “food addiction”?

A Meule - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Increasing evidence suggests that binge eating-related disorders could be related to
addiction-like eating patterns due to the addictive potential of hyperpalatable foods …

“You will eat all of that!”: A retrospective analysis of forced consumption episodes

WR Batsell Jr, AS Brown, ME Ansfield, GY Paschall - Appetite, 2002 - Elsevier
The present research was initiated to examine the prevalence of forced consumption and its
role in subsequent food rejection. A forced consumption episode was defined as a situation …

Separating the signal from the noise: how psychiatric diagnoses can help discern food addiction from dietary restraint

D Wiss, T Brewerton - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
Converging evidence from both animal and human studies have implicated hedonic eating
as a driver of both binge eating and obesity. The construct of food addiction has been used …