How cold temperatures trigger the brain to boost appetite
Neuroscientists at Scripps Research have identified brain circuits that make mammals want to eat more when they are exposed to cold temperatures.
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Neuroscientists at Scripps Research have identified brain circuits that make mammals want to eat more when they are exposed to cold temperatures.
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Researchers of the Human Brain Project at the University of Liège have coupled the measurements of brain waves associated with disorders of consciousness (DoC) with glucose usage in specific brain areas, identifying where ...
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Researchers are learning more about what leads to traumatic brain injury, though they have to be creative to work around limited access to the brain.
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Researchers investigating brain activity in older people say the coordination between neuronal activity and the brain's oxygenation is altered. These findings are published in the Brain Research Bulletin by scientists from ...
Jul 31, 2023
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A team of medical researchers at Memorial University, in Canada, has found evidence showing that concentrations of the PGE2 molecule in the brain can lead to both weight loss and weight gain depending on the amount. In their ...
A new study led by scientists from TUD Dresden University of Technology reveals that the cells in the fruit fly brain possess a remarkable ability to shift their energy production to fats and send signals to the body's other ...
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The human brain is a dominant site for energy metabolism in the body. The intrinsic contraction and relaxation of the vascular walls, also known as "vasomotion," is responsible for metabolic and hemodynamic activity in the ...
Jun 6, 2023
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A team at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research has discovered a group of brain cells that boosts appetite when there is a prolonged surplus of energy in the body, such as excess fat accumulation in obesity.
May 17, 2023
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The human brain has a sweet tooth, burning through nearly one quarter of the body's sugar energy, or glucose, each day. Now, researchers at Gladstone Institutes and UC San Francisco (UCSF) have shed new light on exactly how ...
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Fasting triggers autophagy in our body. The body switches on the waste disposal system in the cells and gains new energy. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne have now shown in mice that ...
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