The increasing worldwide prevalence of obesity is partially related to the ready availability of
highly palatable foods which increases the incidence of hedonic, non-homeostatic feeding …

Similarities and differences between obesity and addiction are a prominent topic of ongoing
research. We conducted an activation likelihood estimation meta‐analysis on 87 studies in …

There is a growing view that certain foods, particularly those high in refined sugars and fats,
are addictive and that some forms of obesity can usefully be treated as a food addiction. This …

One of the defining characteristics of the research of Ann E. Kelley was her recognition that
the neuroscience underlying basic learning and motivation processes also shed significant …

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 …

Publisher Summary Obesity is caused by the consumption of excess calories. As such, it can
be viewed as a failure of homeostatic systems that control body weight or, more …

Obesity has become a major health problem and epidemic. However, much of the current
debate has been fractious and etiologies of obesity have been attributed to eating behavior …

The obesity epidemic has led to the postulation that highly palatable foods may be
“addictive” for some individuals. This idea is supported by the fact that there are overlaps in …

The obesity epidemic has unfolded in a matter of decades, not millennia, and therefore
cannot be attributed to a drift in the genome. Rather, the temporal characteristics of the …

The food addiction model of overeating has been proposed to help explain the widespread
advancement of obesity over the last 30 years. Parallels in neural substrates and …