Interoceptive pathways may be manipulated at various levels to develop interventions to
improve symptoms in a range of disorders. Primarily through the lens of the respiratory …

Eating disorders (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating disorder) are a
heterogeneous class of complex illnesses marked by weight and appetite dysregulation …

Growing evidence indicates that the glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) system is involved in
the neurobiology of addictive behaviors, and GLP-1 analogues may be used for the …

Compulsive drug seeking that is associated with addiction is hypothesized to follow a
heuristic framework that involves three stages (binge/intoxication, withdrawal/negative affect …

Welcome to Health Psychology: Theory, Research and Practice (Seventh Edition). This
textbook provides an in-depth introduction to the growing field of health psychology. It is …

Overeating is a complex behavioral phenotype in terms of both physiology and psychology.
The mere transference of the diagnostic criteria for substance use disorders to define food …

The worldwide prevalence of obesity has dramatically increased, mostly in children and
adolescents. The Emotional Eating theoretical model has proposed that the failure in …

BackgroundThe concepts of impulsivity and compulsivity are commonly used in psychiatry.
Little is known about whether different manifest measures of impulsivity and compulsivity …

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 …

Executive dysfunction is associated with the inability to control aberrant behaviors, such as
chronic overeating (Moore, Sabino, Koob, & Cottone, 2017). Obese individuals often report …