Is food addiction a valid and useful concept?

Obesity and Public Policy

(2012) Ashley N. Gearhardt et al.   Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Food addiction: is there a baby in the bathwater?

(2012) Hisham Ziauddeen et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

Tossing the baby out with the bathwater after a brief rinse? The potential downside of dismissing food addiction based on limited data

(2012) Nicole M. Avena et al.   NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE

An fMRI study of obesity, food reward, and perceived caloric density. Does a low-fat label make food less appealing?

(2011) Janet Ng et al.   APPETITE

Evidence that ‘food addiction’ is a valid phenotype of obesity

(2011) Caroline Davis et al.   APPETITE

OBESITY - IS FOOD ADDICTION TO BLAME?

(2011) PETER J. ROGERS   ADDICTION

Can food be addictive? Public health and policy implications

(2011) Ashley N. Gearhardt et al.   ADDICTION

Neural Correlates of Food Addiction

(2011) Ashley N. Gearhardt   ARCHIVES OF GENERAL PSYCHIATRY

An examination of the food addiction construct in obese patients with binge eating disorder

(2011) Ashley N. Gearhardt et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EATING DISORDERS

Enhanced Striatal Dopamine Release During Food Stimulation in Binge Eating Disorder

(2011) Gene-Jack Wang et al.   Obesity

Rats that binge eat fat-rich food do not show somatic signs or anxiety associated with opiate-like withdrawal: Implications for nutrient-specific food addiction behaviors

(2011) Miriam E. Bocarsly et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Endocannabinoid signal in the gut controls dietary fat intake

(2011) N. V. DiPatrizio et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Lower striatal dopamine D2/3 receptor availability in obese compared with non-obese subjects

(2011) Barbara A de Weijer et al.   EJNMMI Research

How Prevalent is ?Food Addiction??

(2011) Adrian Meule   Frontiers in Psychiatry

CNR1 gene polymorphisms in addictive disorders: a systematic review and a meta-analysis

(2010) Amine Benyamina et al.   ADDICTION BIOLOGY

Drug harms in the UK: a multicriteria decision analysis

(2010) David J Nutt et al.   LANCET

A genetic determinant of the striatal dopamine response to alcohol in men

(2010) V A Ramchandani et al.   MOLECULAR PSYCHIATRY

Dopamine D2 receptors in addiction-like reward dysfunction and compulsive eating in obese rats

(2010) Paul M Johnson et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Compulsive overeating as an addiction disorder. A review of theory and evidence

(2009) Caroline Davis et al.   APPETITE

Initial Evidence of an Association Between OPRM1 and Adolescent Alcohol Misuse

(2009) Robert Miranda et al.   ALCOHOLISM-CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

The plausibility of sugar addiction and its role in obesity and eating disorders

(2009) David Benton   CLINICAL NUTRITION

From taste hedonics to motivational drive: central μ-opioid receptors and binge-eating behaviour

(2009) Pradeep J. Nathan et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

The endocannabinoid system as a link between homoeostatic and hedonic pathways involved in energy balance regulation

(2009) V Di Marzo et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Food Addiction

(2009) Ashley N. Gearhardt et al.   Journal of Addiction Medicine

Equasy — An overlooked addiction with implications for the current debate on drug harms

(2009) DJ Nutt   JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Refined food addiction: A classic substance use disorder

(2009) J.R. Ifland et al.   MEDICAL HYPOTHESES

Neurocircuitry of Addiction

(2009) George F Koob et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Deficits of mesolimbic dopamine neurotransmission in rat dietary obesity

(2009) B.M. Geiger et al.   NEUROSCIENCE

DRD2 -related TaqIA polymorphism modulates motivation to smoke

(2009) Yantao Zuo et al.   NICOTINE & TOBACCO RESEARCH

Genetic variants altering dopamine D2 receptor expression or function modulate the risk of opiate addiction and the dosage requirements of methadone substitution

(2009) Alexandra Doehring et al.   Pharmacogenetics and Genomics

Withdrawal from free-choice high-fat high-sugar diet induces craving only in obesity-prone animals

(2009) Chris Pickering et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Preliminary validation of the Yale Food Addiction Scale

(2008) Ashley N. Gearhardt et al.   APPETITE

Binge-Eating Disorder: Reward Sensitivity and Brain Activation to Images of Food

(2008) Anne Schienle et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Endocannabinoid receptor 1 gene variations increase risk for obesity and modulate body mass index in European populations

(2008) Michael Benzinou et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Widespread reward-system activation in obese women in response to pictures of high-calorie foods

(2008) Luke E. Stoeckel et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Low dopamine striatal D2 receptors are associated with prefrontal metabolism in obese subjects: Possible contributing factors

(2008) Nora D. Volkow et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Bingeing, Self-restriction, and Increased Body Weight in Rats With Limited Access to a Sweet-fat Diet

(2008) Laura A. Berner et al.   Obesity

Neural mechanisms underlying the vulnerability to develop compulsive drug-seeking habits and addiction

(2008) B. J Everitt et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The incentive sensitization theory of addiction: some current issues

(2008) T. E Robinson et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Neurobiological mechanisms for opponent motivational processes in addiction

(2008) G. F Koob et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Relation Between Obesity and Blunted Striatal Response to Food Is Moderated by TaqIA A1 Allele

(2008) E. Stice et al.   SCIENCE

Evidence for sugar addiction: Behavioral and neurochemical effects of intermittent, excessive sugar intake

(2007) Nicole M. Avena et al.   NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS