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Published in final edited form as: CNS Spectr. 2015 Oct 26;20(6):537–545. doi: 10.1017/S1092852915000668

Table 1.

Summary of the most predictive binge eating preclinical models, divided into three major classes, as a function of the procedures used to induce binge eating in the animal.

	Features	Binge-eating episodes
History of dieting and sucrose exposure model	12-h food deprivation is followed by 12-h access to sucrose solution^79,80.	After few days, subjects escalate sucrose intake during the first hour of access.
History of dieting and stress model	Repetition of cycles of food-restriction and refeeding. At the end of each cycle, subjects are exposed to a stressor^81–86.	After three restriction/refeeding stress cycles, stressed subjects escalate their palatable food intake.
The limited access model	Subjects are never food deprived. They are given sporadic, time limited access to either vegetable fat^87,88 or sucrose diet^{17,19,37,89–91}.	Subjects with sporadic access to palatable food escalate their intake.