Compulsive Eating Behavior and Food Addiction - 9780128162071

Compulsive Eating Behavior and Food AddictionEmerging Pathological Constructs\nAuthor(s): Pietro Cottone, Catherine F Moore, Valentina Sabino, George F. Koob\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc, United States\nImprint: Academic Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780128162071, 978-0128162071\nSynopsis\nCompulsive Eating Behavior and Food Addiction: Emerging Pathological Constructs is the first book of its kind to emphasize food addiction as an addictive disorder. This book focuses on the preclinical aspects of food addiction research, shifting the focus towards a more complex behavioral expression of pathological feeding and combining it with current research on neurobiological substrates. This book will become an invaluable reference for researchers in food addiction and compulsive eating constructs. Compulsive eating behavior is a pathological form of feeding that phenotypically and neurobiologically resembles the compulsive-like behaviors associated with both drug a.