The current opioid epidemic is one of the most severe public health crisis in US history.
Responding to it has been difficult due to its rapidly changing nature and the severity of its …

Drug addiction represents a dramatic dysregulation of motivational circuits that is caused by
a combination of exaggerated incentive salience and habit formation, reward deficits and …

As COVID-19 escalated globally in 2020, mandated suspension of dine-in services was
instilled to control virus transmission. Restaurants lost billions of dollars, millions …

Obesity is a complex, chronic medical condition with a major negative impact on human
health. 1 Over the last 30 years, there has been an exponential growth in the prevalence of …

According to learning‐based models of behavior, food cue reactivity and craving are
conditioned responses that lead to increased eating and subsequent weight gain. However …

Obesity is a heterogeneous construct that, despite multiple and diverse attempts, has been
difficult to treat. One conceptualization gaining media and research attention in recent years …

The loss of control over drug intake that occurs in addiction was initially believed to result
from disruption of subcortical reward circuits. However, imaging studies in addictive …

Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a clinical diagnosis that includes the presence of
5% or more hepatic steatosis as determined by liver imaging or biopsy in the absence of …

Drug addiction and obesity appear to share several properties. Both can be defined as
disorders in which the saliency of a specific type of reward (food or drug) becomes …

Abstract Changes in food composition and availability have contributed to the dramatic
increase in obesity over the past 30–40 years in developed and, increasingly, in develo** …