Understanding why we eat and the motivational factors driving food choices is important for
addressing the epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Eating behavior …

The Mediterranean diet has emerged as a comprehensive lifestyle, including specific foods
and meal composition and a set of behavioural and social features. Adherence to the …

The eating disorders anorexia nervosa (AN) and bulimia nervosa (BN) are severe
psychiatric disorders with high mortality. Our knowledge about the neurobiology of eating …

The endocannabinoid metabolome consists of a growing,(patho) physiologically important
family of fatty-acid derived signaling lipids. Diet is a major source of fatty acid substrate for …

Tanycytes are elongated hypothalamic glial cells that cover the basal walls of the third
ventricle; their apical regions contact the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), and their processes …

Background: Preterm infants frequently present eating difficulties in early childhood.
Determinants of these difficulties are not known. Objective: We assessed the influence of …

The prevalence of obesity among women worldwide has escalated to 26%, and among
adolescent girls, it is 18%. An elevated BMI is closely associated with metabolic and …

For most animals, feeding is an essential behavior for securing survival, and it influences
development, locomotion, health and reproduction. Ingestion of the right type and quantity of …

BACKGROUND: The neurobiology of bulimia nervosa (BN) is poorly understood. Recent
animal literature suggests that binge eating is associated with altered brain dopamine (DA) …

Although behavior may often be a fairly direct target of natural or sexual selection, it cannot
evolve without changes in subordinate traits that cause or permit its expression. In principle …