Compulsive Eating Behavior and Food Addiction: Emerging Pathological Constructs

By: Pietro Cottone PhD

Compulsive 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 abuse and behavioral addictions. Compulsive eating behavior, including Binge Eating Disorder (BED), certain forms of obesity, and 'food addiction' affect an estimated 70 million individuals worldwide.

Synthesizes clinical and preclinical perspectives on addictive eating behaviorIdentifies how food addiction is similar and/or different from other addictionsFocuses on the underlying neurobiological mechanismsProvides information on therapeutic interventions for patients with food addiction

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0128162074
• ISBN13: 9780128162071
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 2.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.6" x 9.4"