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1. Introduction
2. Two kinds of eating disorders
3. The night- eating syndrome
4. Experimental hypothalamic hyperphagia in rat
5. The hypothalamus
6. Binge eating disorder (1)
7. Treatment
8. Placebo response
9. Binge eating disorder (2)
10. BED patients with lifetime comorbidity
11. Binge eating disorder as a marker
12. The night eating syndrome
13. Normal pattern
14. Night eating pattern
15. Provisional criteria of the NES
16. Morning hunger and evening caloric intake
17. Nighttime awakenings and ingestions
18. NES onset and stress
19. Psychosocial factors
20. Night eating symptom prevalence
21. Obese and non-obese night eaters
22. Which came first, night eating or obesity?
23. Night eating came first in:
24. Night eating, a pathway to obesity
25. Family 1 NES pedigree
26. Family 2 NES pedigree
27. Results
28. Sleep factors
29. Sleep onset and offset inpatient study
30. Circadian sleep patterns
31. Circadian rhythms
32. Treatment of the night eating syndrome
33. A randomized placebo-controlled trial of sertraline
34. Results: number of awakenings
35. Results: number of nocturnal ingestions
36. Weight loss
37. Siemens symbia SPECT-CT system
38. ADAM SPECT scans of control and NES patient
39. Greater SERT binding in midbrain of night eaters
40. Summary

Topics Covered

• Overeating and undereating
• The hypothalamus
• Satiety and hunger
• Binge eating: symptoms, treatment and placebo response
• Night eating syndrome (NES): provisional criteria, NES onset and stress, psychosocial factors and symptoms
• Which came first: night eating or obesity?
• Night eating is a pathway to obesity
• Circadian rhythms
• Case studies
• Treatment

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Series:

• Obesity

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Metabolism & Nutrition

Therapeutic Areas:

• Cardiovascular & Metabolic

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Publication History

• Published on October 1, 2007
• Archived on May 28, 2025

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Albert Stunkard has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.