Introduction to Food Addiction Research

     The research on food addiction is highly developed in the field of neurology and evolving in the behavioral and environmental fields. This section of the website focuses on the neurological research, but in the future, the Foundation will add bibliographies on such topics as environmental elements common to both addictions and eating including availability, advertising, place triggers, and pricing of food and drugs such as nicotine. It will cover another fruitful area of overlap, i.e. items in assessment tools for addiction and for eating disorders that are similar. The Foundation will add bibliographies for two eating disorders that have been described as exhibiting characteristics of addiction, i.e. bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa. It will also cover similarities in the consequences of eating and drug addiction, particularly in the manifestation of depression and anxiety disorders, and the role of stress in triggering pathological eating and drug use. Please check back to find the addition of these bibliographies.