Food craving, stress and limbic irritability

Authors

SVĚTLÁK Miroslav

Year of publication 2010
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Activitas Nervosa Superior
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
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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