Compulsive Eating Behavior and Food Addiction: Emerging Pathological Constructs (Hardcover)

1. Preface
2. A history of food addiction
3. Food addiction prevalence: development and validation of diagnostic tools
4. Dissecting compulsivity in eating behavior
5. Habitual eating in feeding and eating disorders
6. Reward deficits in compulsive eating
7. The dark side of compulsive eating
8. Inhibitory control dysfunctions in compulsive eating?
9. Personality trait associations with food addiction
10. Genetics and epigenetics of food addiction
11. Animal models used to study the addictive properties of food
12. Neuroimaging of compulsive disorders: Similarities of food addiction with drug and behavioral addictions
13. Addressing controversies surrounding food addiction
14. Sex and gender differences in compulsive overeating
15. Potential therapeutic targets for compulsive eating