Food Addiction: Definition, measurement and prevalence in healthy subjects and in patients with eating disorders

Rivista di Psichiatria

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 60-65

  Imperatori, Claudio ^a   Fabbricatore, Mariantonietta ^a   Vumbaca, Viviana ^a   Innamorati, Marco ^a   Contardi, Anna ^a   Farina, Benedetto ^a  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Eating disorders; Food addiction; Food craving; Obesity; Overweight

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BULIMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; EATING DISORDER; FOOD ADDICTION; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MEASUREMENT; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NONHUMAN; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; ADULT; ANIMAL; ANTHROPOMETRY; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; CHILD; CRAVING; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE MODEL; FEEDING AND EATING DISORDERS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; NEUROIMAGING; OVERWEIGHT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REWARD; SEX DIFFERENCE;

DOPAMINE;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CRAVING; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE; FEEDING AND EATING DISORDERS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; OVERWEIGHT; PREVALENCE; REWARD; SEX FACTORS; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84966473911     PISSN: 00356484     EISSN: 20382502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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