See, researchers have discovered that the annoying cravings we often get for sweets—even when we’re full already—are a response of our body’s neurological systems. In fact, the same neurons in our ...

Researchers at Brown University and Cincinnati Children’s found that suppressing opsin 3 in the brain of mice makes them eat ...

In mice, the neurons that dictate the feeling of being full are also the ones that cause sugar cravings, potentially ...

These project from the arcuate nucleus to other key hypothalamic nuclei, such as the paraventricular, dorsomedial, ventromedial and lateral hypothalamic nuclei. There are also projections to and ...

Oxytocin receptor (Oxtr) signaling influences complex social behaviors in diverse species, including social monogamy in prairie voles. How Oxtr regulates specific components of social attachment ...

the researchers utilized virus tracing and optogenetic manipulations to map the neural pathway from paraventricular nucleus ...

LHA = Lateral hypothalamic area; MCH = Melanin-concentrating hormone; NPY = Neuropeptide Y; OXM = Oxyntomodulin; POMC = Pro-opiomelanocortin; PYY = Peptide YY; PVN = Paraventricular nucleus ...