Intermittent excessive behaviors can lead to, or deepen, addiction. The literature does not support claims that the quantity of use of a behavior equals the degree of addiction.
- Bingeing Rats: A Model of Intermittent Excessive Behavior? (2006)
- (L) Sugar Can Be Addictive: Animal Studies Show Sugar Dependence (2008)
- Impact of Problematic Internet Use on the Self-Esteem of Adolescents in the Selected School, Kerala, India (2020)
- Prevalence of internet addiction among medical students: a study from Southwestern Iran (2019)
- (L) Binge Eaters Dopamine Levels Spike at Sight Smell of Food (2011)
- REVIEW – Evidence For Sugar Addiction: Behavioral and Neurochemical Effects of Intermittent Excessive Sugar Intake (2008)
- Binge-like intake of sucrose reduces the rewarding value of sucrose in adult rats (2018)
- Brief Intermittent Cocaine Self-Administration and Abstinence Sensitizes Cocaine Effects on the Dopamine Transporter and Increases Drug Seeking (2014)
- CRF System Recruitment Mediates Dark Side Of Compulsive Eating (2009)
- Enhanced alcohol self-administration after intermittent versus continuous alcohol vapor exposure (2004)
- Excessive ethanol drinking following a history of dependence: animal model of allostasis (2000)
- Incentive and Dopamine Sensitization Produced by Intermittent But Not Long Access Cocaine Self-Administration (2019)
- Increased ethanol drinking after repeated chronic ethanol exposure and withdrawal experience in C57BL/6 mice (2004)
- Intermittent access to sweet high-fat liquid induces increased palatability and motivation to consume in a rat model of binge consumption (2013)
- Intermittent, extended access to preferred food leads to escalated food reinforcement and cyclic whole-body metabolism in rats: Sex differences and individual vulnerability (2018)
- Less is more: prolonged intermittent access cocaine self-administration produces incentive-sensitization and addiction-like behavior (2016)
- Maladaptive consequences of repeated intermittent exposure to uncertainty (2020)
- One month of cocaine abstinence potentiates rapid dopamine signaling in the nucleus accumbens core (2016)
- Researchers find what could be brains trigger for binge behavior (2016)
- Symptoms of Tobacco Dependence After Brief Intermittent UseThe Development and Assessment of Nicotine Dependence in Youth–2 Study (2007)
- Withdrawal from chronic, intermittent access to a highly palatable food induces depressive-like behavior in compulsive eating rats (2012)
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