Food addiction is considered an important link for a better understanding of psychiatric and
medical problems triggered by dysfunctions of eating behaviors, eg, obesity, metabolic …

Over the past 20 years, psychotropics affecting the serotonergic system have been used
extensively in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Molecular imaging, in particular PET …

Perturbing a system and observing the consequences is a classic scientific strategy for
understanding a phenomenon. Psychedelic drugs perturb consciousness in a marked and …

Brain serotonergic circuitries interact with other neurotransmitter systems on a multitude of
different molecular levels. In humans, as in other mammalian species, serotonin (5-HT) …

Objective Increasing evidence indicates that intestinal microbiota play a role in diverse
metabolic processes via intestinal butyrate production. Human bariatric surgery data …

The in vivo study of receptor binding potential in the human brain is made possible by
positron emission tomography (PET) imaging. Here we review PET studies of neuroreceptor …

Purpose Emerging work indicates divergence in the neurobiologies of binge-eating disorder
(BED) and obesity despite their frequent co-occurrence. This review highlights specific …

Obesity results from an imbalance between energy intake and expenditure, and many
studies have aimed to determine why obese individuals continue to (over) consume food …

Background: Recent studies have suggested therapeutic benefits of psychedelics for a
variety of mental health conditions. The understanding of how single psychedelic …

In response to queries about whether brain imaging technology has reached the point
where it is useful for making a clinical diagnosis and for hel** to guide treatment selection …