ReviewPhysiology & behavior2020
Regulating food craving: From mechanisms to interventions.
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 60 citations in OpenAlex.
- Association between ultraprocessed foods consumption, eating disorders, food addiction and body image: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2024Pooled it
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- Multisession transcranial direct current stimulation and aerobic exercise synergistically improve food craving symptoms, impulsivity, and cognitive flexibility in women with overweight and obesity: a randomized controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2025Trial
- Effects of Hyperdirect Pathway Theta Burst Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Inhibitory Control, Craving, and Smoking in Adults With Nicotine Dependence: A Double-Blind, Randomized Crossover Trial.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2023Trial
- GLP-1 Receptor Agonists and Weight Loss: A Critical Review of Mechanisms.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026Review
- The role of affective learning biases in daily food behaviour.Communications psychology · 2026Article
- The Neuroscience of Decision-Making: Linking the Brain, Behavior, and Society.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Cognitive reappraisal of food and emotion cues involves common and unique neural contributions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Altered eating experience during GLP-1 receptor agonist therapy: a sensory-liking-wanting framework for food preference and nutritional behaviour.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Review
- Effects of Interoceptive and Exteroceptive Attention Training on Desire-Driven Eating in Healthy Adults: A Quasi-Experimental Early-Stage Feasibility Study.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Eating disorder symptoms and emotional arousal modulate food biases during reward learning in females.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Beyond general food craving: sex differences in food-specific craving identified using item response theory.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Evaluating the role of binge planning and binge inevitability within affect regulation models of binge eating.Appetite · 2024Article
- Evaluating dietary restriction as a maintaining factor in binge-eating disorder.The International journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- The effects of virtual reality environmental enrichments on craving to food in healthy volunteers.Psychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Self-regulation training generalizability using the regulation of craving task. An fMRI study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Goal-Dependent Hippocampal Representations Facilitate Self-Control.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- GLP-1 Receptor Agonists and Related Mental Health Issues; Insights from a Range of Social Media Platforms Using a Mixed-Methods Approach.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Time-of-day and day-of-week patterns of binge eating and relevant psychological vulnerabilities in binge-eating disorder.The International journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Examining the role of craving in affect regulation models of binge eating: Evidence from an ecological momentary assessment study.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2023Article
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Abstract
Craving, defined here as a strong desire to eat, is a common experience that drives behavior. Here we discuss the concept of craving from historical, physiological, and clinical perspectives, and review work investigating the effects of cue reactivity and cue-induced craving on eating and weight outcomes, as well as underlying neural mechanisms. We also highlight the significance of cue reactivity and craving in the context of our "toxic food environment" and the obesity epidemic. We then summarize our work developing the Regulation of Craving (ROC) task, used to test the causal effects of cognitive strategies on craving for food and drugs as well as the underlying neural mechanisms of such regulation. Next, we review our recent development of a novel ROC-based intervention that trains individuals to use cognitive strategies to regulate craving, with promising effects on subsequent food choice and caloric consumption. We end by discussing future directions for this important line of work.
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