[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s40337-014-0025-z.].

BACKGROUND Chocolate consumption has long been associated with enjoyment and pleasure. Popular claims confer on chocolate the properties of being a stimulant, relaxant, euphoriant, aphrodisiac, tonic and antidepressant. The last claim stimulated this review. METHOD We review chocolate's properties and the principal hypotheses addressing its claimed mood altering propensities. We distinguish b...

The Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) measures addiction-like eating of palatable foods based on the seven diagnostic criteria for substance dependence in the fourth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). Most recently, a new version of the YFAS has been developed based on the revised eleven diagnostic criteria for substance use disorder in DSM-5. This YF...

Binge eating disorder and bulimia nervosa are disorders that characterized by recurrent binge episodes. The highly contextualized nature of makes naturalistic research a particularly suitable means understanding the context within which occurs. present study aimed to characterise days with regards frequency probability negative affect, food craving, meal skipping, dietary restriction. In additi...

Abstract Purpose of Review The majority existing research discusses food addiction (FA) classification, which provides information for different groups and may or not be affected to differing degrees. Fewer studies report FA symptom scores, fewer still on individual symptoms. This paper the symptoms craving loss control as they are common that demonstrate similarities with both substance use di...

This article reviews current research and cross-disciplinary perspectives on the neuroscience of food reward in animals and humans, examines the scientific hypothesis of food addiction, discusses methodological and terminology challenges, and identifies knowledge gaps and future research needs. Topics addressed herein include the role of reward and hedonic aspects in the regulation of food inta...

OBJECTIVES The current study investigates which foods may be most implicated in addictive-like eating by examining how nutritionally diverse foods relate to loss of control consumption and various subjective effect reports. Subjective effect reports assess the abuse liabilities of substances and may similarly provide insight into which foods may be reinforcing in a manner that triggers an addic...