Food craving, stress and limbic irritability
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Activitas Nervosa Superior |
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| Field | Neurology, neurosurgery, neurosciences |
| Keywords | Food craving Limbic irritability Stress |
| Description | Recent findings show that food craving is strongly related to emotional distress. Stress-induced feeding is a phenomenon related to sensitization associated with repeated stress stimuli and related increase in incentive salience attributed to known familiar foods and increased craving. Because stress sensitization may also produce seizure-like activity, aim of the present study was to test a hypothesis that food craving could be linked to heightened level of seizure-like symptoms that present cognitive and affective symptoms related to temporo-limbic hyperexcitability. |
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