Neural Mechanisms of Eating Disorders and Obesity

Dear Colleagues,

Food intake is an innated behavior that is controlled by the brain through sensing peripheral metabolic signals and environmental food cues. However, both diet components such as those high in fat and a stressful environment can cause neural plasticity of central feeding circuits that leads to eating disorders and obesity. In addition, the diet and environmental factors target central emotion and motivation pathways to change the motivation for food reward. Therefore, it is critically important to know how these diet and environmental factors evoke neural plasticity in central pathways for feeding and motivation to develop eating disorders and obesity.

This Special Issue will focus on novel neural circuits and neural plasticity in developing obesity and eating disorders; sex differences in obesity and eating disorders; gut–brain communication for normal and dysfunctional energy sensing; neuropeptide and hormones in controlling food intake, obesity, and eating disorders; and pharmacological mechanisms for eating regulation and obesity control.

Dr. Xiaobing Zhang
Guest Editor

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