Appetite, reward, and obesity: the causes and consequences of eating behaviors

Eating behavior is constantly being shaped by a convergence of homeostatic demands and motivational parameters set to insure adequate behavioral patterns with a variety of metabolic consequences that send signals to brain structures to the brain structures responsible for the homeostatic parameters. Out of the scores of themes concerning eating behavior, the 18 papers comprising the current Research Topic, "The two-way link between eating behavior and brain metabolism," happened to be distributed among the three large overlapping fields: reward, appetite, and obesity.