ReviewBiological psychology2018
Role of addiction and stress neurobiology on food intake and obesity.
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- Alterations in glucose and insulin resistance following stress and alcohol cues predict alcohol craving in those with AUD and obesity: A preliminary study.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2026 · on this mapArticle
- Allostatic load as a framework for understanding early-onset colorectal cancer: current biomarker evidence and future directions.Frontiers in oncology · 2026Article
- Crosstalk between alcohol use disorder and obesity: two sides of the same coin?Molecular psychiatry · 2025Review
- Adverse childhood experiences and adult stress eating.Research square · 2025Article
- The Effects of Moderate-Intensity Physical Exercise and Yoga Interventions on Stress in Hispanic College Students: A Pilot Study.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Comparative Analysis of Food Addiction and Obesity: A Critical Review.Food science & nutrition · 2025Review
- Patterns of olfactory perception, eating behavior and body composition in adolescents with different body weights.Endocrine · 2025Article
- Lower Cortisol and Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate and Higher Food Addiction in Childhood Obesity: Associations With Stress and Dietary Parameters.Journal of the Endocrine Society · 2025Article
- Binge-type eating disorders and ultra-processed food addiction: phenomenology, pathophysiology and treatment implications.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- A Study of the Factors Impeding Proper Dietary Habits: An Investigation Using the Japanese Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions.Clinics and practice · 2024Article
- Lifetime stressor exposure is associated with greater rewarding effects of stress-related eating.Physiology & behavior · 2024Article
- Pre-Surgery Cortisol Levels as Biomarker of Evolution after Bariatric Surgery: Weight Loss and Weight Regain.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Stress and substance use disorders: risk, relapse, and treatment outcomes.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2024Review
- The Case for Trauma-Informed Chronic Disease Care: Exploring Trauma Among Adults With Obesity On Dialysis.The journal of nephrology social work · 2024Article
- The role of psychosocial well-being and emotion-driven impulsiveness in food choices of European adolescents.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Article
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Abstract
The US remains at the forefront of a global obesity epidemic with a significant negative impact on public health. While it is well known that a balance between energy intake and expenditure is homeostatically regulated to control weight, growing evidence points to multifactorial social, neurobehavioral and metabolic determinants of food intake that influence obesity risk. This review presents factors such as the ubiquitous presence of rewarding foods in the environment and increased salience of such foods that stimulate brain reward motivation and stress circuits to influence eating behaviors. These rewarding foods via conditioned and reinforcing effects stimulate not only metabolic, but also stress hormones, that, in turn, hijack the brain emotional (limbic) and motivational (striatal) pathways, to promote food craving and excessive food intake. Furthermore, the impact of high levels of stress and trauma and altered metabolic environment (e.g. higher weight, altered insulin sensitivity) on prefrontal cortical self-control processes that regulate emotional, motivational and visceral homeostatic mechanisms of food intake and obesity risk are also discussed. A heuristic framework is presented in which the interactive dynamic effects of neurobehavioral adaptations in metabolic, motivation and stress neurobiology may further support food craving, excessive food intake and weight gain in a complex feed-forward manner. Implications of such adaptations in brain addictive-motivational and stress pathways and their effects on excessive food intake and weight gain are discussed to highlight key questions that requires future research attention in order to better understand and address the growing obesity epidemic.
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