Withdrawal from chronic, intermittent access to a highly palatable food induces depressive-like behavior in compulsive eating rats

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 23, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 593-602

  Iemolo, Attilio ^a,b   Valenza, Marta ^a,b,c   Tozier, Lisa ^b   Knapp, Clifford M ^b   Kornetsky, Conan ^b   Steardo, Luca ^d   Sabino, Valentina ^a,b   Cottone, Pietro ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anhedonia; brain stimulation reward; depression; eating disorders; food addiction; forced swim test; rat; sucrose

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EATING HABIT; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PALATABILITY; RAT; SELF STIMULATION; SUGAR INTAKE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DIET; DIETARY SUCROSE; ENERGY INTAKE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCES; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REWARD; SELF STIMULATION; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864872016     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: 14735849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e328357697f     Document Type: Article

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