High fructose corn syrup-moderate fat diet potentiates anxio-depressive behavior and alters ventral striatal neuronal signaling

While consuming diets high in sugar and fats lower taste sensations, alters food choices, and facilitates feeding, May et al. (2020) planned to find out how these changes influence eating by using a genetically tractable (modifiable) organism called D. melanogaster. The scientists monitored the activity of a specific set of neurons in the organism referred […]

An important neuroendocrine center for the regulation of hunger and fullness is the hypothalamus. It has been demonstrated in animal experiments that hypothalamic injury or stimulation alters feeding behavior, which in turn affects body mass, and that consumption of high-calorie diets produces hypothalamic inflammation. These results imply that changes in food consumption cause and result […]