Making the moment-to-moment dynamics of solid-food intake measurable in any laboratory enables researchers to map the brain circuits that control appetite and accelerate the development of treatments ...

Extracellular recordings in freely moving mice, especially those with movable electrodes (microdrives), are crucial for understanding brain function. However, existing microdrives are often heavy, exp...

This study investigated the sex-specific effects of commonly prescribed appetite suppressants on body weight and the manifestation of motor side effects, specifically stereotypy. Employing video recor...

Back-to-back studies map complementary hunger and satiety pathways, offering clues to refine weight-loss drugs.

Reward-related processes have traditionally been ascribed to neural circuits centered on the dopamine (DA) system. While exteroceptive stimuli, such as food and drugs of abuse, are well-established ac...

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The newly launched Rutgers Center for NeuroMetabolism (CNM), in collaboration with the Child Health Institute of New Jersey (CHINJ), the Department of Neuroscience and Cell Biology (NCB), and the Rutg...

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This study investigated the sex-specific effects of commonly prescribed appetite suppressants on body weight and the manifestation of motor side effects, specifically stereotypy. Employing video recor...

Nucleus accumbens (NAc) dopamine D1 receptor-expressing neurons are known to be critical for processing reward and regulating food intake. However, the role of D2-expressing neurons in this nucleus re...

Nature Metabolism - Combining rabies-based connectomics with single-nucleus transcriptomics, the authors identify a neural circuit through which GLP-1 receptor agonists suppress appetite in mice.

A timing-based code for semantic knowledge in humans complements the established role of firing rates in neural coding.

Arroyo et al. show that NAcSh neuronal ensembles are distinct modules, each processing specific aspects of reward-guided behavior. These ensembles adapt during learning, forming different functional c...

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