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Does Having a Sweet Tooth Make You a Sweeter Person?
Shape Magazine: Can your personality impact the foods you love to eat? Or can what snacks you reach for change people’s perceptions of you? Perhaps, according to a new study published in the Journal of
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Fatty Foods Addictive Like Cocaine in Growing Body of Scientific Research
Bloomberg: Cupcakes may be addictive, just like cocaine. A growing body of medical research at leading universities and government laboratories suggests that processed foods and sugary drinks made by the likes of PepsiCo Inc. and
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Psychologists Stress the Importance of Memory in Preventing Relapse after Therapy
Addictions, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder—such painful and harmful problems are recalcitrant to treatment. In the clinic, a person may suppress the association between the stimulus and the response—say, a bar with ashtrays and smoking—by learning
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In Appreciation: Bartley G. Hoebel (1935-2011)
APS Fellow and Charter Member Bartley Hoebel passed away due to cancer on June 11, 2011. Hoebel was best known for his research on food addiction, especially for his work showing that sugar can be
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The New Science Behind Your Spending Addiction
Newsweek: Like many colleges, Washington University in St. Louis offers children of its faculty free tuition. So Leonard Green, a professor of psychology there, did all he could to persuade his daughter to choose the
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Virginia Tech announces national addiction registry
Virginia Tech News: ROANOKE, Va., Oct. 6, 2011 – C.W. started getting high when he was only 13. “I started off sniffing gasoline out of a lawnmower, then moved on to beer, wine, and marijuana,”