Eating behavior in response to acute stress

This 2019 study analyzed whether healthy and/or unhealthy comfort eating could reduce stress, and whether the time period that the comfort eating took place could lead to greater stress relief. In order to induce stress, the 150 women in this experiment were faced with a socially evaluative stressor. Firstly, the participants underwent the Trier Social […]

In previous works by Ball et al. (2022), the authors demonstrated the potential role played by chronic stress in stimulating the recurrence of palatable food-related behaviors in male rats. Sex was shown to be an essential determinant of the neurobehavioral outcomes of stress exposure, which spurred the authors to investigate whether sex plays a role […]