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Appetite. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 Mar 10. Appetite. 2010 Dec; 55(3): 734–737. Published online 2010 Sep 16. doi:  10.1016/j.appet.2010.09.010 PMCID: PMC4354886 NIHMSID: NIHMS669566 Nicole M. Avena Abstract This review summarizes evidence of “food addiction” using animal models of binge eating. In our model of sucrose bingeing, behavioral components of addiction are demonstrated and […]

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Physiol Behav. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2010 Jul 14. Published in final edited form as: Physiol Behav. 2009 Jul 14; 97(5): 551–560. Published online 2009 Mar 27. doi:  10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.03.020 PMCID: PMC2734415 NIHMSID: NIHMS127696 Eric Stice, Sonja Spoor, Janet Ng, and David H. Zald   Abstract This report reviews findings from studies that have investigated […]

Read More… from Relation of Obesity to Consummatory and Anticipatory Food Reward (2009)

J Abnorm Psychol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2009 May 13. J Abnorm Psychol. 2008 Nov; 117(4): 924–935. doi:  10.1037/a0013600 PMCID: PMC2681092 NIHMSID: NIHMS100845 Eric Stice and Sonja Spoor Oregon Research Institute Cara Bohon Department of Psychology, University of Oregon Marga Veldhuizen and Dana Small J.B. Pierce Laboratory, Yale University Abstract We tested the hypothesis […]

Read More… from Relation of Reward from Food Intake and Anticipated Food Intake to Obesity: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study (2008)

Neuroscience. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 Mar 12. Neuroscience. 2008 Oct 28; 156(4): 865–871. Published online 2008 Aug 22. doi:  10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.08.017 PMCID: PMC4357519 NIHMSID: NIHMS669569 N. M. AVENA,a P. RADA,a,b and B. G. HOEBELa,* Abstract The present study tested whether rats release more accumbens dopamine (DA) during a sugar binge when they are underweight […]

Read More… from Underweight rats have enhanced dopamine release and blunted acetylcholine response in the nucleus accumbens while bingeing on sucrose (2008)

Physiol Behav. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2015 Mar 10. Published in final edited form as: Physiol Behav. 2008 Jun 9; 94(3): 309–315. Published online 2008 Jan 16. doi:  10.1016/j.physbeh.2008.01.008 PMCID: PMC4354893 NIHMSID: NIHMS669562 Nicole M. Avena, Miriam E. Bocarsly, Pedro Rada, Agnes Kim, and Bartley G. Hoebel* Abstract Bingeing on sugar may activate neural […]

Read More… from After daily bingeing on a sucrose solution, food deprivation induces anxiety and accumbens dopamine/acetylcholine imbalance (2008)

 First published June 29, 2011, doi: 10.3945/​ajcn.111.020164 Am J Clin Nutr August 2011  vol. 94 no. 2 367-368 ajcn.111.020164v1 94/2/367 © 2011 American Society for Nutrition Nicole M Avena and Mark S Gold + Author Affiliations 1From The University of Florida, College of Medicine, McKnight Brain Institute, Department of Psychiatry, Gainesville, FL (NMA and MSG), […]

Read More… from Variety and hyperpalatability: are they promoting addictive overeating? (2011)

Transl Psychiatry. 2017 Jan 3;7(1):e992. doi: 10.1038/tp.2016.256. Limbrick-Oldfield EH1,2, Mick I3, Cocks RE2,3, McGonigle J3, Sharman SP2,4, Goldstone AP3,5, Stokes PR3,6, Waldman A7, Erritzoe D3, Bowden-Jones H8, Nutt D3, Lingford-Hughes A3,5,8, Clark L1,2. Abstract Cue reactivity is an established procedure in addictions research for examining the subjective experience and neural basis of craving. This experiment […]

Read More… from Neural substrates of cue reactivity and craving in gambling disorder (2016)

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