Some Media Coverage on research done in the Kenny Lab
The Irish Times: What causes cravings for high-calorie foods?
Watch Paul Kenny and the Kenny Lab: The Friedman Brain Institute: Conquering Brain Disease
PR Newswire: Eolas Therapeutics and AstraZeneca Partner to Develop Orexin-1 Receptor Antagonist for Multiple Indications
Pharmaceutical Technology: AstraZeneca and Eolas to develop Orexin-1 receptor antagonist for addiction
Time Magazine: Can Eating Junk Food Really Be an Addiction?
BBC: Sugar vs. Fat
Time Magazine: Understanding the mind of a cocaine addict
Katie Couric, CBS News: Katie Couric’s Notebook: Food Addiction
The Colbert Report: Thought for Food – Corn Diapers, Fatty Foods & Jamie Oliver
CNN: Fatty foods may cause cocaine-like addiction
The Wall Street Journal: Study: New Evidence for Food Addiction
CBS News: Rats Starve Rather Than Eat Healthy Food
ABC: Junk food can become addictive: study
New York Daily News: Fatty foods may be just as addictive as heroin and cocaine: study
Nature: Junk-food Junkies
Scientific American: Addicted to Fat: Overeating May Alter the Brain as Much as Hard Drugs
The Scientist: miRNA stunts drug addiction
Good Morning America (ABC): The Science of Food Cravings
KPBS Radio: The Science of Substance Abuse
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: “Junk food”
Perez Hilton: Junk food is almost as addictive as heroin, scientists have found!
The Telegraph: Junk food as ‘addictive as drugs’