Edgar Luis Lima De Oliveira
Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Institute, University of São Paulo (USP), SP, Brazil.
Emilie Lacroix
Department of Psychology, University of Calgary, AB, Canada.
Andrea Lorena Costa Stravogiannis, Maria De Fátima Vasques, Cristiane Ruiz Durante, Érica Panzani Duran, Daniela Pereira, Janice Rico Cabral, Hermano Tavares
Department of Psychiatry, Psychiatry Institute, University of São Paulo (USP), SP, Brazil.
Abstract:
There has been an increase in the number of publications using the term food addiction (FA), with many animal and humans neuroimaging studies demonstrating similarities between food and drugs of abuse. FA is most often assessed with the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS), a questionnaire which directly applies DSM- IV-TR substance dependence criteria to food and eating. Although FA is not an official diagnosis, YFAS scores are associated with eating disorders, depression, emotion dysregulation and lower self-esteem, suggesting a need to target these symptoms in treatment.
Keywords:food addiction ,eating disorders, depression, emotion dysregulation and lower self-esteem ,Schema therapy