Topic: compulsive food intake

Food addiction is characterized by impulsive decision-making, compulsive food intake, and a loss of behavioral control toward highly palatable foods. Impulsivity has been described as a predictive vulnerability marker for addiction disorders. The ventral hippocampus (vHPC) to prelimbic medial prefrontal cortex (PL mPFC) pathway has been associated with impulsive operant responses towards highly palatable foods and food-motivated behaviors. However, the electrophysiological dynamics between these brain areas underlying impulsivity are not well understood.In the food addiction animal model, mice