Drug addiction and obesity appear to share several properties. Both can be defined as
disorders in which the saliency of a specific type of reward (food or drug) becomes …

Recent concepts of addiction to drugs (eg cocaine) and non-drugs (eg gambling) have
proposed that these behaviors are the product of an imbalance between three separate, but …

Our brains are hardwired to respond and seek immediate rewards. Thus, it is not surprising
that many people overeat, which in some can result in obesity, whereas others take drugs …

Relatively discrete experimental literatures have grown to support the insula's role in the
domains of interoception, focal exteroceptive attention and cognitive control, and the …

In the past decade, neuroimaging research has begun to identify key brain regions involved
in self-referential processing, most consistently midline structures such as the posterior …

Importance Alcohol dependence is a chronic relapsing illness; stress, alcohol-related cues,
and neutral-relaxing states significantly influence craving and relapse risk. However, neural …

An emerging body of research suggests that mindfulness-based interventions may be
beneficial for smoking cessation and the treatment of other addictive disorders. One way that …

It has been convincingly established, over the past decade, that the human insular cortices
are involved in processing both body feelings (such as pain) and feelings of emotion …

Recent studies in cognitive neuroscience have suggested that the integration of information
about the internal bodily state and the external environment is crucial for the experience of …

Through sequential waves of drug-induced neurochemical stimulation, addiction co-opts the
brain's neuronal circuits that mediate reward, motivation to behavioral inflexibility and a …