Compulsive eating shares addictive biochemical mechanism with cocaine, heroin abuse: study

Sunday, March 28, 2010 - 13:14 in Psychology & Sociology

In a newly published study, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have shown for the first time that the same molecular mechanisms that drive people into drug addiction are behind the compulsion to overeat, pushing people into obesity.

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