Craving fullness: a fullness-seeking phenotype that blurs the line between binge eating disorder and food addiction (opens in new tab)

Food addiction and binge eating disorder show striking clinical overlap that current diagnostic frameworks do not fully capture. In binge eating disorder samples, Yale Food Addiction Scale-defined food addiction has been reported in roughly half of participants. Higher symptom severity is associated with greater impairment. Within this overlap, clinicians frequently observe a subset of patients whose compulsive eating is organized around the pursuit of extreme fullness rather than palatabilit...