ReviewBiological psychiatry2013
Does a shared neurobiology for foods and drugs of abuse contribute to extremes of food ingestion in anorexia and bulimia nervosa?
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- Disentangling food addiction-related symptom profiles in anorexia nervosa: a latent class analysis and clinical implications.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Multimodal Investigations of Structural and Functional Brain Alterations in Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa and Their Relationships to Psychopathology.Biological psychiatry · 2025Article
- Why Don't You Just Eat? Neuroscience and the Enigma of Eating Disorders.Focus (American Psychiatric Publishing) · 2024Article
- Nucleus accumbens D1- and D2-expressing neurons control the balance between feeding and activity-mediated energy expenditure.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Therapeutic ketogenic diet as treatment for anorexia nervosa.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Review
- The Effect of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) on Anorexia Nervosa: A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2023Review
- Adapting family-based treatment for adolescent anorexia nervosa delivered in the home: A novel approach for improving access to care and generalizability of skill acquisition.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- State-specific alterations in the neural computations underlying inhibitory control in women remitted from bulimia nervosa.Molecular psychiatry · 2023Article
- Neural activation of regions involved in food reward and cognitive control in young females with anorexia nervosa and atypical anorexia nervosa versus healthy controls.Translational psychiatry · 2023Article
- The Genetically Informed Neurobiology of Addiction (GINA) model.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2023Review
- Brain reward response in adolescents and young adults with anorexia nervosa is moderated by changes in body weight and sweetness perception.The International journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- CerebralObesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2022Article
- Restrictive eating disorders in children and adolescents: a comparison between clinical and psychopathological profiles.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Article
- The influence of homeostatic mechanisms on neural regulation of food craving in anorexia nervosa.Psychological medicine · 2021Article
- Shared genetic risk between eating disorder- and substance-use-related phenotypes: Evidence from genome-wide association studies.Addiction biology · 2021Article
- Separating the Signal from the Noise: How Psychiatric Diagnoses Can Help Discern Food Addiction from Dietary Restraint.Nutrients · 2020Review
- Eating disorders in a community-based sample of women with alcohol use disorder and nicotine dependence.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020Article
- Food Addiction among Female Patients Seeking Treatment for an Eating Disorder: Prevalence and Associated Factors.Nutrients · 2020Article
- Disgust and fear: common emotions between eating and phobic disorders.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2020Article
- Neuroendocrinology of reward in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa: Beyond leptin and ghrelin.Molecular and cellular endocrinology · 2019Review
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Abstract
Is starvation in anorexia nervosa (AN) or overeating in bulimia nervosa (BN) a form of addiction? Alternatively, why are individuals with BN more vulnerable and individuals with AN protected from substance abuse? Such questions have been generated by recent studies suggesting that there are overlapping neural circuits for foods and drugs of abuse. To determine whether a shared neurobiology contributes to eating disorders and substance abuse, this review focused on imaging studies that investigated response to tastes of food and tasks designed to characterize reward and behavioral inhibition in AN and BN. BN and those with substance abuse disorders may share dopamine D2 receptor-related vulnerabilities, and opposite findings may contribute to "protection" from substance abuse in AN. Moreover, imaging studies provide insights into executive corticostriatal processes related to extraordinary inhibition and self-control in AN and diminished inhibitory self-control in BN that may influence the rewarding aspect of palatable foods and likely other consummatory behaviors. AN and BN tend to have premorbid traits, such as perfectionism and anxiety that make them vulnerable to using extremes of food ingestion, which serve to reduce negative mood states. Dysregulation within and/or between limbic and executive corticostriatal circuits contributes to such symptoms. Limited data support the hypothesis that reward and inhibitory processes may contribute to symptoms in eating disorders and addictive disorders, but little is known about the molecular biology of such mechanisms in terms of shared or independent processes.
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