ReviewNutrients2018
Food Addiction and Binge Eating: Lessons Learned from Animal Models.
Review in Nutrients, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.
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- Sex as a moderator of the relationship between food addiction and body mass index in young non-help-seeking adults at risk for psychosis and controls.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2026Article
- Translational Perspectives on Binge-Eating: Insights from Animal Models.Current psychiatry reports · 2026Review
- Influence of caloric restriction history, intermittent exposure to palatable food and sex in a binge eating model in C57BL/6J mice.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Novel potential pharmacological approaches in treating eating disorders comorbid with substance use disorders.Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2025Review
- The role of motivation in eating disorders: understanding sex differences in the circuits.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Review
- Binge-type eating disorders and ultra-processed food addiction: phenomenology, pathophysiology and treatment implications.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- The potential effect of α7 nicotinic receptors modulation on palatable food-induced dependence-like behaviors.Saudi pharmaceutical journal : SPJ : the official publication of the Saudi Pharmaceutical Society · 2024Article
- The emerging role of glucagon-like peptide 1 in binge eating.The Journal of endocrinology · 2024Review
- Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy as a potential treatment for eating disorders: a narrative review of preliminary evidence.Trends in psychiatry and psychotherapy · 2024Review
- Differential exposure to palatable food and its effects on binge-like eating behavior in adolescent rats.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Role of Endogenous Opioids in the Pathophysiology of Obesity and Eating Disorders.Advances in neurobiology · 2024Review
- Endogenous Opioids in the Homeostatic Regulation of Hunger, Satiety, and Hedonic Eating: Neurobiological Foundations.Advances in neurobiology · 2024Review
- Stress-impaired reward pathway promotes distinct feeding behavior patterns.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
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- Comparison of binge-eating disorder and food addiction.The Journal of international medical research · 2023Review
- Potential Biological Markers and Treatment Implications for Binge Eating Disorder and Behavioral Addictions.Nutrients · 2023Review
- Attentional bias for high-calorie food cues by the level of hunger and satiety in individuals with binge eating behaviors.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Linking drug and food addiction: an overview of the shared neural circuits and behavioral phenotype.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Review
- Genetics and neurobiology of eating disorders.Nature neuroscience · 2022Review
- From binge eating to binge drinking: A new and robust paradigm for assessing binge ethanol self-administration in male rats.Addiction biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The feeding process is required for basic life, influenced by environment cues and tightly regulated according to demands of the internal milieu by regulatory brain circuits. Although eating behaviour cannot be considered "addictive" under normal circumstances, people can become "addicted" to this behaviour, similarly to how some people are addicted to drugs. The symptoms, cravings and causes of "eating addiction" are remarkably similar to those experienced by drug addicts, and both drug-seeking behaviour as eating addiction share the same neural pathways. However, while the drug addiction process has been highly characterised, eating addiction is a nascent field. In fact, there is still a great controversy over the concept of "food addiction". This review aims to summarize the most relevant animal models of "eating addictive behaviour", emphasising binge eating disorder, that could help us to understand the neurobiological mechanisms hidden under this behaviour, and to improve the psychotherapy and pharmacological treatment in patients suffering from these pathologies.
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