INTRODUCTION Obesity, Eating Disorders and Food Addiction Towards a SynthesisbrbPart I Standard Approaches to Clinical Assessment and Treatment of Obesity and Binge Eating Disorder BEDbbrChapter 1. Determinants of Body Weight Metabolism and the Homeostatic SystembrChapter 2. Obesity brChapter 3. Binge-Related Eating Disorders Binge Eating Disorder and Bulimia NervosabbrbbPart II Can The Food Addiction Concept Improve TreatmentbbrChapter 4. Problems with Current Approaches to Treating Disorders of OvereatingbrChapter 5. The Food Addiction Concept History, Controversy, Potential Pitfalls and PromisesbrbPart III Clinical Evidence for Food AddictionbbrChapter 6. Clinical Evidence for the Validity of Food AddictionbrbPart IV Basic Biology of Food Addiction, and Its Overlap with Substance Use DisordersbbrChapter 7. Neurobiology and Cognitive Neuroscience of Substance Use Disorders brChapter 8. Neurobiology and Cognitive Neuroscience of Hedonic Eating brChapter 9. Additional Biological Mechan