Emotional eating is commonly defined as the tendency to (over) eat in response to emotion.
Insofar as it involves the (over) consumption of high-calorie palatable foods, emotional …

The development of novel radiotracers for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) imaging
agents targeting the synaptic vesicle glycoprotein 2 A (SV2A), an integral glycoprotein …

A promising, yet relatively unexplored factor that may influence a person's stress response,
is diet. Diet can affect the physiological response to stress, but relationships between diet …

FOS proteins are early-responding gene products that contribute to the formation of activator
protein-1. Several acute and chronic stimuli lead to Fos gene expression, accompanied by …

Chronic stress drives behavioral and physiological changes associated with numerous
psychiatric disease states. In rodents, the vast majority of chronic stress models involve …

The study of host-microbe neuroendocrine crosstalk, termed microbial endocrinology,
suggests the impact of diet on host health and microbial viability is, in part, reliant upon …

Eating tasty foods dampens responses to stress–an idea reflected in the colloquial term
'comfort foods'. To study the neurobiological mechanisms by which palatable foods provide …

Limited intermittent consumption of palatable food reduces HPA axis responses to stress in
chow-fed rats, and this effect is dependent on the rewarding properties of the palatable food …

Eating palatable foods reduces behavioral and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical (HPA)
axis responses to stress–an idea referred to by the colloquial term “comfort” food. To study …

Objective While stress typically reduces caloric intake (hypophagia) in chow-fed rodents,
presentation of palatable, high calorie substances during stress can increase caloric …