ReviewBiological psychiatry2013
Stress as a common risk factor for obesity and addiction.
Review in Biological psychiatry, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05347914 (Mobile Mindfulness Intervention to Reduce Non-Homeostatic Food Cravings in Emotional Eaters), which is not on this map. Cited by 253 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Mobile Mindfulness Intervention to Reduce Non-Homeostatic Food Cravings in Emotional Eaters: Research Pilot
Who cites it
253 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 598 citations in OpenAlex.
- The influence of stress on the neural underpinnings of disinhibited eating: a systematic review and future directions for research.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2023Pooled it
- Effects of total diet replacement programs on mental well-being: A systematic review with meta-analyses.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2022Pooled it
- Cash transfer programs and child health and family economic outcomes: a systematic review.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2022Pooled it
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- Effects of parenting interventions on child and caregiver cortisol levels: systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- Efficacy and safety of Ashwagandha (Journal of medicine and life · 2025Trial
- Barriers to progressing through a methadone maintenance treatment programme: perspectives of the clients in the Mid-West of Ireland's drug and alcohol services.BMC health services research · 2018Trial
- Preventing Childhood Obesity Through a Mindfulness-Based Parent Stress Intervention: A Randomized Pilot Study.The Journal of pediatrics · 2018Trial
- The TALENT II study: a randomized controlled trial assessing the impact of an individual health management (IHM) on stress reduction.BMC public health · 2018Trial
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- Stress induced hyperphagia iniScience · 2026Article
- Ultra-Processed Foods as a Cross-Cutting Driver of Health Inequities: Low- and Middle-Income Countries Across the Life-Course.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Psychosocial Stressors and Heart Failure Risk Among Black Women in the US.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Beyond diagnosis: a network approach to the emotional and control processes involved in the binge eating spectrum disorders.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Mindfulness Intervention for Parent Stress and Childhood Obesity Risk: A Randomized Trial.Pediatrics · 2026Article
- The Biochemical Role of Bitter Melon (Food science & nutrition · 2026Article
- Effects of Sex, Estradiol, and Acute Stress on Spontaneous Recovery of a Conditioned Touchscreen Response in Rats.Neuroscience insights · 2026Article
- Time perspective and smartphone addiction among college students: the mediating role of perceived stress.Current issues in personality psychology · 2026Article
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193 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Stress is associated with obesity, and the neurobiology of stress overlaps significantly with that of appetite and energy regulation. This review will discuss stress, allostasis, the neurobiology of stress and its overlap with neural regulation of appetite, and energy homeostasis. Stress is a key risk factor in the development of addiction and in addiction relapse. High levels of stress changes eating patterns and augments consumption of highly palatable (HP) foods, which in turn increases incentive salience of HP foods and allostatic load. The neurobiological mechanisms by which stress affects reward pathways to potentiate motivation and consumption of HP foods as well as addictive drugs is discussed. With enhanced incentive salience of HP foods and overconsumption of these foods, there are adaptations in stress and reward circuits that promote stress-related and HP food-related motivation as well as concomitant metabolic adaptations, including alterations in glucose metabolism, insulin sensitivity, and other hormones related to energy homeostasis. These metabolic changes in turn might also affect dopaminergic activity to influence food motivation and intake of HP foods. An integrative heuristic model is proposed, wherein repeated high levels of stress alter the biology of stress and appetite/energy regulation, with both components directly affecting neural mechanisms contributing to stress-induced and food cue-induced HP food motivation and engagement in overeating of such foods to enhance risk of weight gain and obesity. Future directions in research are identified to increase understanding of the mechanisms by which stress might increase risk of weight gain and obesity.
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