Underwhelming pleasures: Toward a self-regulatory account of hedonic compensation and overconsumption

This 2017 review provides a summary of the developments on the addictive potential of palatable foods, including evidence that maternal exposure to these foods may be capable of provoking neurobehavioral alterations in the offspring. Wiss et al. (2017) state that overconsumption may lead to an override of the homeostasis and thus result in hedonic eating, […]

The aim of this 2013 study was to identify the emotional and motivational processes that reinstate food intake after high-fat meals are removed from the diet, and also to determine the associated neuroadaptations tied to neurochemical and behavioural changes underlying dopaminergic function. This animal model study on adult male C57Bl6 mice involved a 6-week diet […]