Homeostasis meets motivation in the battle to control food intake

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 45, 2016, Pages 11469-11481

  Ferrario, Carrie R ^a   Labouèbe, Gwenaël ^b   Liu, Shuai ^c   Nieh, Edward H ^d   Routh, Vanessa H ^e   Xu, Shengjin ^f   O’Connor, Eoin C ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Accumbens; AGRP; Arculate nucleus; Dieting; Dopamine; Ghrelin; Glucose; Insulin; Leptin; Orexin; Paraventricular thalamic nucleus; POMC; Reward

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORPUS STRIATUM; EATING DISORDER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD CONTROL; FOOD INTAKE; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; MOTIVATION; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; APPETITE REGULATION; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; EATING; ENERGY METABOLISM; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; MOTIVATION;

EID: 84994713153     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2338-16.2016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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