Food intake is governed by two interacting drives. The homeostatic hunger drive regulates food intake to fulfill caloric needs while the hedonic drive promotes intake of palatable foods outside of cal...

Objective Converging evidence from neuroimaging studies and genome-wide association study (GWAS) suggests the involvement of prefrontal cortex (PFC) and striatum dysfunction in the pathophysiology o...

Recent years have seen a growth in our understanding of the biological drivers of eating disorders and their interactions with environmental and psychosocial factors. Foldi and Griffiths consider how ...

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Recent years have seen a growth in our understanding of the biological drivers of eating disorders and their interactions with environmental and psychosocial factors....

Nature - Opponent control of reinforcement by striatal dopamine and serotonin

A set of scripts used to analyze data from whole brain lightsheet experiments. - Kwan-Lab/aboharbdavoudian2025

Nature Communications - Astrocytes perform intriguing roles in neural circuits. Here, the authors show that in striatum, astrocytes adopt a satellite-like proximity to cholinergic interneurons,...