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Appetite : neural and behavioural bases / edited by Charles R. Legg and David Booth.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- EBBS publications series ; 1.
- EBBS publications series ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Appetite.
- Desire.
- Appetite disorders.
- Substance abuse.
- Compulsive behavior.
- Neuropsychology.
- Feeding and Eating Disorders.
- Behavior, Addictive.
- Hunger.
- Medical Subjects:
- Appetite.
- Feeding and Eating Disorders.
- Behavior, Addictive.
- Hunger.
- Neuropsychology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 334 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book deals with both the psychological and neurobiological mechanisms in appetites for drugs, food, sex, and gambling, and considers whether there are common factors between them. The authors approach this by looking at the bases of both normal and abnormal appetites in humans.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
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