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SUBMITTER: Sharpe MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5564224 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sharpe Melissa J MJ Marchant Nathan J NJ Whitaker Leslie R LR Richie Christopher T CT Zhang Yajun J YJ Campbell Erin J EJ Koivula Pyry P PP Necarsulmer Julie C JC Mejias-Aponte Carlos C Morales Marisela M Pickel James J Smith Jeffrey C JC Niv Yael Y Shaham Yavin Y Harvey Brandon K BK Schoenbaum Geoffrey G
Current biology : CB 20170706 14
Eating is a learned process. Our desires for specific foods arise through experience. Both electrical stimulation and optogenetic studies have shown that increased activity in the lateral hypothalamus (LH) promotes feeding. Current dogma is that these effects reflect a role for LH neurons in the control of the core motivation to feed, and their activity comes under control of forebrain regions to elicit learned food-motivated behaviors. However, these effects could also reflect the storage of as ...[more]