ReviewSubstance abuse and rehabilitation2014
Evolutionary and neuropsychological perspectives on addictive behaviors and addictive substances: relevance to the "food addiction" construct.
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- Addiction spectrum disorder: a conceptual framework for comprehensive understanding of addictive disorders.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Role of Endogenous Opioids in the Pathophysiology of Obesity and Eating Disorders.Advances in neurobiology · 2024Review
- Is Food Addiction a Specific Feature of Individuals Seeking Dietary Treatment from Nutritionists?Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2023Article
- Food Addiction and Grazing-The Role of Difficulties in Emotion Regulation and Negative Urgency in University Students.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Grazing Is Associated with ADHD Symptoms, Substance Use, and Impulsivity in a Representative Sample of a Large Metropolitan Area in Brazil.Nutrients · 2023Article
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- Neural circuit control of innate behaviors.Science China. Life sciences · 2022Review
- Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the modified Yale Food Addiction Scale version 2.0 (C-mYFAS 2.0): Prevalence of food addiction and relationship with resilience and social support.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
- Associations Between Food Addiction and Substance-Use Disorders: A Critical Overview of their Overlapping Patterns of Consumption.Current addiction reports · 2022Review
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- Subpopulations of Addictive Behaviors in Different Sample Types and Their Relationships with Gender, Personality, and Well-Being: Latent Profile vs. Latent Class Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Structural validity, measurement invariance, reliability and diagnostic accuracy of the Italian version of the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 in patients with severe obesity and the general population.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Article
- Gambling Dual Disorder: A Dual Disorder and Clinical Neuroscience Perspective.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Review
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- Food addiction: a valid concept?Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2018Review
- Intermittent, extended access to preferred food leads to escalated food reinforcement and cyclic whole-body metabolism in rats: Sex differences and individual vulnerability.Physiology & behavior · 2018Article
- Sugar Addiction: From Evolution to Revolution.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Review
- Impaired Conflict Monitoring to Food Cues in Women Who Binge Eat.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Validation of the Spanish Version of the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 (YFAS 2.0) and Clinical Correlates in a Sample of Eating Disorder, Gambling Disorder, and Healthy Control Participants.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
- Are loss of control while eating and overeating valid constructs? A critical review of the literature.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2017Review
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Abstract
It has been argued that food cannot be "addictive", unlike conventional drugs of abuse, because it is an essential part of life. In this paper, evidence is reviewed, largely from an evolutionary psychobiological perspective, that plant-based psychoactive drugs (such as those derived from the opium poppy and the coca leaf) and gambling-related behaviors were once adaptive for human health and survival in a similar manner as energy-based foods were for nourishment. "Evolutionary mismatch" viewpoints contend that certain behaviors were enhanced during the hunter-gatherer lifestyle - from which our genetic endowment had its origins - because they bestowed both survival and reproductive advantages to the species. However, in the context of advanced technology and other rapid environmental changes, these same behaviors have tended to become maladaptive and greatly overexpressed. Similar to the manufactured purification of psychotropic plant-based substances, the reward impact of processed and hyperpalatable foods, with their high levels of sugar, fat, and salt, is much increased from foods produced in nature. It is concluded therefore that what was once beneficial and necessary for our survival has been altered and ultraprocessed into edible products that may be disadvantageous and potentially addictive.
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