Obes Rev. 2013 January; 14(1): 19–28. Published online 2012 October 12. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-789X.2012.01046.x H Ziauddeen1,2,3 and P C Fletcher1,2,3 Abstract In this paper, we consider the concept of food addiction from a clinical and neuroscientific perspective. Food addiction has an established and growing currency in the context of models of overeating and obesity, and its […]
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Nat Neurosci. 2012 Oct;15(10):1330-5. doi: 10.1038/nn.3202. DiLeone RJ, Taylor JR, Picciotto MR. Source Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Abstract The growing rates of obesity have prompted comparisons between the uncontrolled intake of food and drugs; however, an evaluation of the equivalence of food- and drug-related behaviors requires a […]
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J Psychoactive Drugs. 2012 Jan-Mar;44(1):56-63. Fortuna JL. Source Department of Health Science, California State University, Fullerton, CA 92831, USA. [email protected] Abstract As of 2010 nearly 70% of adult Americans were overweight or obese. Specifically, 35.7% of adult Americans are obese, and this is the highest level of obesity in the recorded history of the United […]
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PLoS One. 2013 Sep 4;8(9):e74832. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074832. Pedram P, Wadden D, Amini P, Gulliver W, Randell E, Cahill F, Vasdev S, Goodridge A, Carter JC, Zhai G, Ji Y, Sun G. Source Discipline of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada. Abstract BACKGROUND: ‘Food addiction’ shares a similar neurobiological and behavioral […]
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