Neuroscience study identifies role of melanin-concentrating hormone neurons in non-hunger-driven eating https://www.psypost.org/neuroscience-study-identifies-role-of-melanin-concentrating-hormone-neurons-in-non-hunger-driven-eating/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Neuroscience #EatingBehavior #MelaninConcentratingHormone #FoodReward #ResearchStudy

New study from the Klein department finds novel mechanism regulating eating behavior: the ‘hunger hormone’ ghrelin activates specialized neurons in the amygdala, which regulate appetite and cause the pleasure of eating. Read the paper:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adf6521

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Here comes my mastodon #introduction: I'm Ann-Kathrin, a postdoc at the Eating Lab Salzburg (Austria) with @Jblechert. I am applying #EMA #EMIs #JITAIs and experimental approaches to understand and improve #eatingbehavior and #eatingdisorders. I'm especially interested in N of 1 modeling approaches and multilevel modeling.

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I'm an associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researching how much coffee a single human can consume, but also looking at food reinforcement/decision-making and eating habit formation.

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