ArticleNutrients2014
A psycho-genetic study of hedonic responsiveness in relation to "food addiction".
Article in Nutrients, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Pooled it
- Systematic Review of Food Addiction as Measured with the Yale Food Addiction Scale: Implications for the Food Addiction Construct.Current neuropharmacology · 2019Pooled 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
- Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of an Online Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Randomised Controlled Trial Targeting Addictive and Compulsive Overeating Among Australian Young Adults.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2025Trial
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- The Effect of Childhood Experiences, Picky Eating, and Hedonic Hunger on Eating Addiction in University Students: Analyzed by Machine Learning Approach.Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Genome-wide association analysis reveals insights into the genetic architecture of mesenteric torsion in pigs.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Questioning the validity of food addiction: a critical review.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Review
- Hedonic hunger, food addiction, and night eating syndrome triangle in adolescents and ıts relationship with body mass ındex.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Prevalence and correlates of addictive eating behaviours in a large cohort of Australian adolescents.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2023Article
- The Role of Food Addiction and Lifetime Substance Use on Eating Disorder Treatment Outcomes.Nutrients · 2023Article
- The relationship of hedonic hunger with food addiction and obesity in university students.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
- Current Intervention Treatments for Food Addiction: A Systematic Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- 'Liking' and 'wanting' in eating and food reward: Brain mechanisms and clinical implications.Physiology & behavior · 2020Review
- Food Addiction Mediates the Relationship between Perceived Stress and Body Mass Index in Taiwan Young Adults.Nutrients · 2020Article
- Genetic Similarities between Compulsive Overeating and Addiction Phenotypes: A Case for "Food Addiction"?Current psychiatry reports · 2015Review
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
While food addiction has no formally-recognized definition, it is typically operationalized according to the diagnostic principles established by the Yale Food Addiction Scale-an inventory based on the symptom criteria for substance dependence in the DSM-IV. Currently, there is little biologically-based research investigating the risk factors for food addiction. What does exist has focused almost exclusively on dopaminergic reward pathways in the brain. While brain opioid signaling has also been strongly implicated in the control of food intake, there is no research examining this neural circuitry in the association with food addiction. The purpose of the study was therefore to test a model predicting that a stronger activation potential of opioid circuitry-as indicated by the functional A118G marker of the mu-opioid receptor gene-would serve as an indirect risk factor for food addiction via a heightened hedonic responsiveness to palatable food. Results confirmed these relationships. In addition, our findings that the food-addiction group had significantly higher levels of hedonic responsiveness to food suggests that this bio-behavioral trait may foster a proneness to overeating, to episodes of binge eating, and ultimately to a compulsive and addictive pattern of food intake.
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