How Prevalent is ?Food Addiction??

How Prevalent is “Food Addiction”?

Increasing evidence suggests that binge eating-related disorders could be related to addiction-like eating patterns due to the addictive potential of hyperpalatable foods. Subsequently, important implications have been derived for treatment of those disorders and even political actions. However, studies on the prevalence of food addiction are rare. Few recent studies investigated addictive eati...

How Prevalent Is Schizophrenia?

How Is Addiction Spreading?

designed to do this and until surveys of selected populations are carried out we shall not have this information. Plans to carry out such surveys have met with such obstacles that one might with reason feel that there are certain entrenched sections of opinion that do not desire to find out what is, say, the extent of drug abuse among schoolchildren in the London area, this being one possible p...

How Prevalent Is Object-Based Attention?

Previous research suggests that visual attention can be allocated to locations in space (space-based attention) and to objects (object-based attention). The cueing effects associated with space-based attention tend to be large and are found consistently across experiments. Object-based attention effects, however, are small and found less consistently across experiments. In three experiments we ...

How prevalent is cancer family syndrome?

Based on an established but pragmatic definition of cancer family syndrome as the presence of three or more relatives affected by colorectal cancer in a first degree kinship, the contribution of this syndrome to the total cancer burden in Northern Ireland has been studied by investigating all non-polyposis probands under 55 years old at histological diagnosis between 1976 and 1978. Family inter...