Appetite : neural and behavioural bases

Table of Contents: “…Appetite -- a psychological concept -- Neural processing related to feeding in primates -- Brainstem orosensorimotor mechanisms and the neural control of ingestive behavior -- Role of digestive afferents in food intake regulation -- Small objects of desire: the recognition of appropriate foods and drinks and its neural mechanisms -- Human male sexuality: appetite and arousal, desire and drive -- Classical conditioning, drug cues and drug addiction -- The learned nature of binge eating -- Neuropharmacology of appetite and taste preferences -- A brief history of the anhedonia hypothesis -- The appetite for nicotine -- Young people and fruit machine gambling -- Comparing motivational systems -- an incentive motivation perspective.…”


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