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Assoc prof of behavioral genetics with my own twins. I mix behaviour and genetics @unitartu and @mcgillu to understand obesity. I also mix global music as a DJ.
Oct 29, 2019 12 tweets 7 min read
Tweetorial on addictions and obesity, based on our recent paper “Obesity has limited behavioural overlap with addiction and psychiatric phenotypes” @NatureHumBehav

Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s41562…
Preprint: psyarxiv.com/jt2b7/
1/12 Are we loosing control over eating to the extent that we are addicted to food? Food addiction concept has been popularised since 1950-s and is debated to this day.@PaulPcf22

History of food addiction: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
Debate: nature.com/articles/s4138…
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