Pavlovian conditioning and cross-sensitization studies raise challenges to the hypothesis that overeating is an addictive behavior

Stress as a Common Risk Factor for Obesity and Addiction

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Neuroscience of affect: brain mechanisms of pleasure and displeasure

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The touchscreen operant platform for testing learning and memory in rats and mice

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On the motivational properties of reward cues: Individual differences

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Individual variation in resisting temptation: Implications for addiction

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The role of dopamine in the accumbens core in the expression of Pavlovian-conditioned responses

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Food addiction: is there a baby in the bathwater?

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

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The link between stress and feeding behaviour

(2012) Jayanthi Maniam et al.   NEUROPHARMACOLOGY

Towards an Animal Model of Food Addiction

(2012) Johannes W. de Jong et al.   Obesity Facts

Is food addiction a valid and useful concept?

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Obesity and addiction: neurobiological overlaps

(2012) N. D. Volkow et al.   Obesity Reviews

The functional human neuroanatomy of food pleasure cycles

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Quantifying Individual Variation in the Propensity to Attribute Incentive Salience to Reward Cues

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Persistent effects of prior chronic exposure to corticosterone on reward-related learning and motivation in rodents

(2012) Peter Olausson et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

A classically conditioned cocaine cue acquires greater control over motivated behavior in rats prone to attribute incentive salience to a food cue

(2012) Lindsay M. Yager et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

BDNF Is a Negative Modulator of Morphine Action

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Disconnection and reconnection: the morphological basis of (mal)adaptation to stress

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What is eating you? Stress and the drive to eat

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Neural Correlates of Food Addiction

(2011) Ashley N. Gearhardt   ARCHIVES OF GENERAL PSYCHIATRY

Pairings of lever and food induce Pavlovian conditioned approach of sign-tracking and goal-tracking in C57BL/6 mice

(2011) Arthur Tomie et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Individual Variation in the Motivational Properties of Cocaine

(2011) Benjamin T Saunders et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Repeated ethanol administration modifies the temporal structure of sucrose intake patterns in mice: effects associated with behavioral sensitization

(2010) Raúl Pastor et al.   ADDICTION BIOLOGY

A Cocaine Cue Acts as an Incentive Stimulus in Some but not Others: Implications for Addiction

(2010) Benjamin T. Saunders et al.   BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY

Cheesecake-eating rats and the question of food addiction

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Obesity Among Those with Mental Disorders

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Acute stress and food-related reward activation in the brain during food choice during eating in the absence of hunger

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Synaptotagmin IV determines the linear Ca2+ dependence of vesicle fusion at auditory ribbon synapses

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Probing Compulsive and Impulsive Behaviors, from Animal Models to Endophenotypes: A Narrative Review

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An Animal Model of Genetic Vulnerability to Behavioral Disinhibition and Responsiveness to Reward-Related Cues: Implications for Addiction

(2009) Shelly B Flagel et al.   NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Behavioral characteristics and neurobiological substrates shared by Pavlovian sign-tracking and drug abuse

(2008) Arthur Tomie et al.   BRAIN RESEARCH REVIEWS

Neurophysiological Pathways to Obesity: Below Awareness and Beyond Individual Control

(2008) D. A. Cohen   DIABETES

Children's food preferences: Effects of weight status, food type, branding and television food advertisements (commercials)

(2008) Jason C. G. Halford et al.   International Journal of Pediatric Obesity

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

(2008) Nora D. Volkow et al.   NEUROIMAGE

Individual differences in the attribution of incentive salience to reward-related cues: Implications for addiction

(2008) Shelly B. Flagel et al.   NEUROPHARMACOLOGY

The incentive sensitization theory of addiction: some current issues

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Overlapping neuronal circuits in addiction and obesity: evidence of systems pathology

(2008) N. D Volkow et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Affective neuroscience of pleasure: reward in humans and animals

(2008) Kent C. Berridge et al.   PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY

Short article: Rats learn to eat more to avoid hunger

(2008) Soghra Jarvandi et al.   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY

Individual differences in the attribution of incentive salience to a reward-related cue: Influence on cocaine sensitization

(2007) Shelly B. Flagel et al.   BEHAVIOURAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Obesity and mental disorders in the adult general population

(2007) Kate M. Scott et al.   JOURNAL OF PSYCHOSOMATIC RESEARCH

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

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