TY  - JOUR
A1  - Meule, Adrian
A1  - Gearhard, Ashley N.
T1  - Food Addiction in the Light of DSM-5
JF  - Nutrients
N2  - The idea that specific kind of foods may have an addiction potential and that some forms of overeating may represent an addicted behavior has been discussed for decades. In recent years, the interest in food addiction is growing and research on this topic lead to more precise definitions and assessment methods. For example, the Yale Food Addiction Scale has been developed for the measurement of addiction-like eating behavior based on the diagnostic criteria for substance dependence of the fourth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). In 2013, diagnostic criteria for substance abuse and-dependence were merged, thereby increasing the number of symptoms for substance use disorders (SUDs) in the DSM-5. Moreover, gambling disorder is now included along SUDs as a behavioral addiction. Although a plethora of review articles exist that discuss the applicability of the DSM-IV substance dependence criteria to eating behavior, the transferability of the newly added criteria to eating is unknown. Thus, the current article discusses if and how these new criteria may be translated to overeating. Furthermore, it is examined if the new SUD criteria will impact future research on food addiction, for example, if "diagnosing" food addiction should also be adapted by considering all of the new symptoms. Given the critical response to the revisions in DSM-5, we also discuss if the recent approach of Research Domain Criteria can be helpful in evaluating the concept of food addiction.
KW  - food addiction
KW  - obesity
KW  - binge eating
KW  - RDoC
KW  - DSM-IV
KW  - DSM-5
KW  - substance dependence
KW  - substance use disorder
KW  - gambling
KW  - craving
Y1  - 2014
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-119279
SN  - 2072-6643
VL  - 6
IS  - 9
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Blechert, Jens
A1  - Meule, Adrian
A1  - Busch, Niko A.
A1  - Ohla, Kathrin
T1  - Food-pics: an image database for experimental research on eating and appetite
JF  - Frontiers in Psychology
N2  - Our current environment is characterized by the omnipresence of food cues. The sight and smell of real foods, but also graphically depictions of appetizing foods, can guide our eating behavior, for example, by eliciting food craving and influencing food choice. The relevance of visual food cues on human information processing has been demonstrated by a growing body of studies employing food images across the disciplines of psychology, medicine, and neuroscience. However, currently used food image sets vary considerably across laboratories and image characteristics (contrast, brightness, etc.) and food composition (calories, macronutrients, etc.) are often unspecified. These factors might have contributed to some of the inconsistencies of this research. To remedy this, we developed food-pics, a picture database comprising 568 food images and 315 non-food images along with detailed meta-data. A total of N = 1988 individuals with large variance in age and weight from German speaking countries and North America provided normative ratings of valence, arousal, palatability, desire to eat, recognizability and visual complexity. Furthermore, data on macronutrients (g), energy density (kcal), and physical image characteristics (color composition, contrast, brightness, size, complexity) are provided. The food-pics image database is freely available under the creative commons license with the hope that the set will facilitate standardization and comparability across studies and advance experimental research on the determinants of eating behavior. Read F
KW  - food-cues
KW  - standardized food images
KW  - ERP
KW  - image properties
KW  - anorexia nervosa
KW  - restrained eaters
KW  - high calorie
KW  - brain
KW  - weight loss
KW  - visual-attention
KW  - responses
KW  - cues
KW  - reward
KW  - hunger
KW  - fMRI
KW  - eating behavior
KW  - obesity
KW  - food pictures
Y1  - 2014
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-115987
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 5
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Rodríguez-Martín, Boris C.
A1  - Meule, Adrian
T1  - Food craving: new contributions on its assessment, moderators, and consequences
T2  - Frontiers in Psychology
N2  - No abstract available.
KW  - food
KW  - cravings
KW  - emotional eating
KW  - obesity
KW  - pregnancy
KW  - binge eating
KW  - food addiction
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-190299
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 6
IS  - 21
ER  -