RT Journal Article
T1 Food addiction and binge eating: Lessons learned from animal models
A1 Garrido Novelle, Marta
A1 Diéguez, Carlos
AB The feeding process is required for basic life, influenced by environment cues and tightly regulated according to demands of the internal milieu by regulatory brain circuits. Although eating behaviour cannot be considered “addictive” under normal circumstances, people can become “addicted” to this behaviour, similarly to how some people are addicted to drugs. The symptoms, cravings and causes of “eating addiction” are remarkably similar to those experienced by drug addicts, and both drug-seeking behaviour as eating addiction share the same neural pathways. However, while the drug addiction process has been highly characterised, eating addiction is a nascent field. In fact, there is still a great controversy over the concept of “food addiction”. This review aims to summarize the most relevant animal models of “eating addictive behaviour”, emphasising binge eating disorder, that could help us to understand the neurobiological mechanisms hidden under this behaviour, and to improve the psychotherapy and pharmacological treatment in patients suffering from these pathologies.
PB MDPI
SN 2072-6643
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/94792
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/94792
LA eng
NO Novelle, M.G.; Diéguez, C. Food Addiction and Binge Eating: Lessons Learned from Animal Models. Nutrients 2018, 10, 71. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu10010071
NO This work has been supported by grants from Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (CD BFU2014-55871), Xunta de Galicia (ED431, 2017/030). Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red (CIBER) de Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBERobn). CIBERobn is an initiative of the Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII) of Spain which is supported by FEDER funds.
NO Instituto de Salud Carlos III
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
NO European Commission
DS Docta Complutense
RD 10 abr 2025