Course: Food for Thought: The Relationship Between Food, Gut and Brain

Restrained eating is the effort to restrict the amount of food ingested, with the goal of losing weight or preventing weight gain. While temporary diets are a common event in …

In this video, Prof. Nanette Stroebele-Benschop explores how cognitions, thoughts and attitudes can affect our eating behaviours. Prof. Nanette Stroebele-Benschop uses the example of pretzels in Germany to indicate that …

In this step, we continue discussing the relationship between emotions and food intake. There are different ways in which the foods we eat can have an effect on our emotions. …

How does our emotional states relate to our eating behaviour? In this video step, Prof. Stroebele-Benschop explores the different ways emotions can affect our food intake, drawing from a model …

Welcome to the third week of this course. This week is all about our thoughts and feelings towards food. The first two steps of this week will cover the relationship …

In this week we’ve talked about reward systems and about the concept of food addiction. Some of these themes, especially the ones touched during the previous article, will be discussed …

Measuring a concept, or an entity, is crucial to fully understand it. It is not a surprise that scientists have tried to measure food addiction – either in terms of …

What is food addiction? Food addiction might seem a new topic – it has only caught steam in the scientific literature over the last 10 years. However, the idea was …

The brain reward system In the previous video, we’ve explored what a reward is, from a behavioural and psychological point of view. We will now explore reward from a neurobiological …

What is a reward? Do universal rewards exist? We all can name some rewards: food, money, sex, and even drugs. But what is a reward in the eye of a …

What happens when we ingest food? In this video, Julia Jarowslaska describes the events taking place in our body after we take the first bite. From taste receptors in the …

This week we will explore the following topics: Responses to feeding The reward system Food addiction. The first activity focuses on the response to feeding, the reward systems and the …

During this week we introduced some fundamental notions. For instance, we described some aspects of the brain and of brain metabolism. We also started to analyze why our cognitive processes …

What are cognitions? Just as in the past video we introduced emotions, in this one we introduce the concept of cognition and some key notions related to it, and we …