"Food Addiction" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A cluster of chemical dependencies to specific foods or food in general in which there develops a physical craving for these foods.
| Descriptor ID |
D000073932
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.145.527.100.120.500 F03.400.813
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Food Addiction" by people in Profiles.
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Linking drug and food addiction via compulsive appetite. Br J Pharmacol. 2022 06; 179(11):2589-2609.
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Separating the Signal from the Noise: How Psychiatric Diagnoses Can Help Discern Food Addiction from Dietary Restraint. Nutrients. 2020 Sep 25; 12(10).
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Food addiction as a proxy for eating disorder and obesity severity, trauma history, PTSD symptoms, and comorbidity. Eat Weight Disord. 2017 Jun; 22(2):241-247.