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Food addiction in the light of DSM-5.
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101 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 269 citations in OpenAlex.
- What Is the Evidence for "Food Addiction?" A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2018Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of the Application And Correlates of YFAS-Diagnosed 'Food Addiction' in Humans: Are Eating-Related 'Addictions' a Cause for Concern or Empty Concepts?Obesity facts · 2015Pooled it
- Prevalence of food addiction and its association with ghrelin and metabolic parameters in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional study.BMC endocrine disorders · 2026Article
- Using Best-Worst Scaling to explore the perceived addictiveness of foods by processing level: a cross-sectional study among higher education students in Belgium.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2026Article
- Household income and food addiction symptoms predict ultra-processed foods intake in Brazilian university students: implications for policy.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2026Article
- The role of food addiction in the association between sustainable and healthy eating behaviors and obesity indicators.European journal of nutrition · 2026Article
- Unhealthy food bias in food addiction: behavioral evidence from a probabilistic image choice task.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- When cues take the wheel: cue-control across alcohol use disorder, binge-eating disorder, gambling disorder, and internet gaming disorder.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Prevalence and determinants of food addiction among Palestinian university students: a cross-sectional study.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2025Article
- Childhood traumatic experiences and addiction-like eating behaviors: the mediating roles of attachment, mentalization, and emotional eating.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Neurocognitive impairments in eating disorders patients with and without comorbid food addiction.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
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- First do no harm: the impact of assessing for ultra-processed food addiction on dietary restraint in patients with and without eating disorders during residential treatment.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Uncontrolled Eating Through the Lens of Mentalization and Emotional Eating: The Moderating Role of Food Addiction.Nutrients · 2025Article
- A simple action reduces high-fat diet intake and obesity in mice.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Validation of the Hungarian version of the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 (YFAS 2.0).Addictive behaviors reports · 2025Article
- Self-control, food choices, and affective well-being in daily life: an experience sampling study.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- The Path from Childhood Emotional Maltreatment to Disordered Eating Behaviors: The Role of Reflective Functioning and Food Addiction.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Food Addiction 5 and 10 Years Following Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: a Prospective Observational Study.Obesity surgery · 2025Observational
- The Validation of the Persian Version of Sugar Addiction Questionnaire: Factor Structure, Item Analysis and Model Fit.Iranian journal of psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
The idea that specific kind of foods may have an addiction potential and that some forms of overeating may represent an addicted behavior has been discussed for decades. In recent years, the interest in food addiction is growing and research on this topic lead to more precise definitions and assessment methods. For example, the Yale Food Addiction Scale has been developed for the measurement of addiction-like eating behavior based on the diagnostic criteria for substance dependence of the fourth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). In 2013, diagnostic criteria for substance abuse and-dependence were merged, thereby increasing the number of symptoms for substance use disorders (SUDs) in the DSM-5. Moreover, gambling disorder is now included along SUDs as a behavioral addiction. Although a plethora of review articles exist that discuss the applicability of the DSM-IV substance dependence criteria to eating behavior, the transferability of the newly added criteria to eating is unknown. Thus, the current article discusses if and how these new criteria may be translated to overeating. Furthermore, it is examined if the new SUD criteria will impact future research on food addiction, for example, if "diagnosing" food addiction should also be adapted by considering all of the new symptoms. Given the critical response to the revisions in DSM-5, we also discuss if the recent approach of Research Domain Criteria can be helpful in evaluating the concept of food addiction.
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