An abnormally great desire for food; excessive eating.
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Although hyperphagia is well documented during and prior to migration, it is not known whether it persists until birds reach their breeding grounds.
Preparation for migration and for winter requires a period of hyperphagia and a laying down of fat reserves.
Seasonal Affective Disorder patients tend to exhibit hyperphagia and carbohydrate cravings, symptoms typical of inadequate brain serotonin.
Children with Prader-Willi syndrome show extreme hyperphagia and obsessive-compulsive behavior.
Most juveniles do not undergo hyperphagia or rapid fattening at this wintering site.
Cocaine withdrawal bears a striking similarity to the symptoms of depressive disorders, typically including exhaustion, hypersomnia, hyperphagia, depressed mood, as well as intermittent periods of cocaine craving.