Appetite

• 1. Appetite - a psychological concept ; 2. Neural processing relating to feeding in primates ; 3. Brainstem orosensorimotor mechanisms and the neural control of ingestive behaviour ; 4. Role of digestive afferents in food intake regulation ; 5. Small objects of desire: the recognition of appropriate foods and drinks and its neural mechanisms ; 6. Human male sexuality: appetite and arousal, desire and drive ; 7. Classical conditioning, drug cues and drug addiction ; 8. The learned nature of binge eating ; 9. Neuropharmacology of appetite and taste preferences ; 10. A brief history of the anhedonia hypothesis ; 11. The appetite for nicotine ; 12. Young people and fruit machine gambling ; 13. Comparing motivational systems - an incentive motivation perspective

well written, with reasonably clear and helpful illustrations, and would either make a good introduction to the subject for a researcher or clinician interested in appetite, or to broaden the knowledge of a researcher working in one aspect of appetite