Is food addictive? A review of the science

AN Gearhardt, EM Schulte - Annual Review of Nutrition, 2021 - annualreviews.org
As ultraprocessed foods (ie, foods composed of mostly cheap industrial sources of dietary
energy and nutrients plus additives) have become more abundant in our food supply, rates …

Investigating the relationship between reward sensitivity, impulsivity, and food addiction: A systematic review

AL Maxwell, E Gardiner… - European Eating Disorders …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The aim of the current research was to identify the extent to which reward
sensitivity and impulsivity were related to food addiction. Method Forty‐five studies …

Food addiction in eating disorders and obesity: analysis of clusters and implications for treatment

S Jiménez-Murcia, Z Agüera, G Paslakis, L Munguia… - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
Food addiction (FA) has been associated with greater psychopathology in individuals with
eating disorders (ED) and obesity (OBE). The current study aims to provide a better …

Brain correlates of eating disorders in response to food visual stimuli: a systematic narrative review of FMRI studies

A Celeghin, S Palermo, R Giampaolo, G Di Fini… - Brain sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
This article summarizes the results of studies in which functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI) was performed to investigate the neurofunctional activations involved in …

Food addiction and psychiatric comorbidities: a review of current evidence

A Piccinni, R Bucchi, C Fini, F Vanelli, M Mauri… - Eating and Weight …, 2021 - Springer
Background Food addiction (FA) is characterised by the consumption of appetible foods and
by addictive psychological and behavioural symptoms such as cravings, tolerance, limited …

Aberrant functional connectivity between reward and inhibitory control networks in pre-adolescent binge eating disorder

SB Murray, C Alba, CJ Duval, JM Nagata… - Psychological …, 2023 - cambridge.org
BackgroundBehavioral features of binge eating disorder (BED) suggest abnormalities in
reward and inhibitory control. Studies of adult populations suggest functional abnormalities …

[HTML][HTML] Fat addiction: psychological and physiological trajectory

S Sarkar, KP Kochhar, NA Khan - Nutrients, 2019 - mdpi.com
Obesity has become a major public health concern worldwide due to its high social and
economic burden, caused by its related comorbidities, impacting physical and mental health …

Associations between food addiction and substance-use disorders: a critical overview of their overlap** patterns of consumption

R Bonder, C Davis - Current Addiction Reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Research on patterns of overconsumption in individuals with
food addiction (FA) has focused largely on binge eating. However, compulsive overeating …

Potential biological markers and treatment implications for binge eating disorder and behavioral addictions

G Mestre-Bach, MN Potenza - Nutrients, 2023 - mdpi.com
The reward system is highly relevant to behavioral addictions such as gambling disorder
(GD), internet gaming disorder (IGD), and food addiction/binge eating disorder (FA/BED) …

The influence of the subcortex and brain stem on overeating: How advances in functional neuroimaging can be applied to expand neurobiological models to beyond …

PH Kung, C Soriano-Mas, T Steward - Reviews in Endocrine and …, 2022 - Springer
Functional neuroimaging has become a widely used tool in obesity and eating disorder
research to explore the alterations in neurobiology that underlie overeating and binge eating …