The role of reward circuitry and food addiction in the obesity epidemic: An update

SJ Leigh, MJ Morris - Biological psychology, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Reward processing in obesity, substance addiction and non‐substance addiction

I García‐García, A Horstmann, MA Jurado… - Obesity …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

The neurobiology of “food addiction” and its implications for obesity treatment and policy

A Carter, J Hendrikse, N Lee, M Yücel… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
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 …

The contribution of brain reward circuits to the obesity epidemic

E Stice, DP Figlewicz, BA Gosnell, AS Levine… - Neuroscience & …, 2013 - Elsevier
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 …

Obesity and addiction: neurobiological overlaps

ND Volkow, GJ Wang, D Tomasi, RD Baler - Obesity reviews, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

The neurobiology of appetite: hunger as addiction

A Dagher - Obesity Prevention, 2010 - Elsevier
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 …

Food addiction and obesity: evidence from bench to bedside

Y Liu, KM von Deneen, FH Kobeissy… - Journal of psychoactive …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Overlaps in the nosology of substance abuse and overeating: the translational implications of “food addiction”

NM Avena, ME Bocarsly, BG Hoebel… - Current drug abuse …, 2011 - ingentaconnect.com
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 …

Individual differences in the neurophysiology of reward and the obesity epidemic

DM Small - International journal of obesity, 2009 - nature.com
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 neurobiological underpinnings of obesity and binge eating: a rationale for adopting the food addiction model

DG Smith, TW Robbins - Biological psychiatry, 2013 - Elsevier
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 …