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ReviewBiological psychiatry2013

Dopamine and food addiction: lexicon badly needed.

John D Salamone, Mercè Correa

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Review in Biological psychiatry, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Article
  3. Dopamine ModulatesBiology · 2021
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  6. Review
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  10. Activation of Ventral Tegmental Area 5-HTNeuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2017
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  13. How Does the Brain Implement Adaptive Decision Making to Eat?The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2015
    Review
  14. The role of prolactin in andrology: what is new?Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2015
    Review
  15. Goals in Nutrition Science 2015-2020.Frontiers in nutrition · 2015
    Article
  16. Psychiatric aspects of bariatric surgery.Current opinion in psychiatry · 2014
    Review
  17. Hypothalamic food intake regulation in a cancer-cachectic mouse model.Journal of cachexia, sarcopenia and muscle · 2014
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

John D SalamoneDepartment of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-1020, USA. john.salamone@uconn.edu
Mercè Correa

Funding

CT Research Center for Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Study CenterU01DA016194 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS · PI FRISMAN, LINDA K · 2002 to 2012
$6.4M
Effort-related Functions of Nucleus Accumbens Adenosine A2A ReceptorsR01MH078023 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS · PI SALAMONE, JOHN D · 2007 to 2010
$835k
Development of rat models of the effort-related symptoms of depressionR03MH094966 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS · PI SALAMONE, JOHN D · 2012 to 2013
$151k
NIDA NIH HHS U01 DA016194NIDA NIH HHS U01DA016194NIMH NIH HHS MH078023NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH078023NIMH NIH HHS R03 MH094966
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Over the last few years, the concept of food addiction has become a common feature in the scientific literature, as well as the popular press. Nevertheless, the use of the term addiction to describe pathological aspects of food intake in humans remains controversial, and even among those who affirm the validity of the concept, there is considerable disagreement about its utility for explaining the increasing prevalence of obesity throughout much of the world. An examination of the literature on food addiction indicates that mesolimbic and nigrostriatal dopamine systems often are cited as mechanisms that contribute to the establishment of food addiction. However, in reviewing this literature, it is important to have a detailed consideration of the complex nature of dopaminergic involvement in motivational processes. For example, although it is often stated that mesolimbic dopamine mediates reward, there is no standard or consistent technical meaning of this term. Moreover, there is a persistent tendency to link dopamine transmission with pleasure or hedonia, as opposed to other aspects of motivation or learning. The present article provides a critical discussion of some aspects of the food addiction literature, viewed through the lens of recent findings and current theoretical views of dopaminergic involvement in food motivation. Furthermore, compulsive food intake and binge eating will be considered from an evolutionary perspective, in terms of the motivational subsystems that are involved in adaptive patterns of food consumption and seeking behaviors and a consideration of how these could be altered in pathological conditions.

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RewardBehavior, AddictiveBrainDopamineHumansNeural PathwaysNucleus AccumbensDopamine

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PMID23177385
PMCPMC4450088

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