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Neurons Responsible for Over-eating Revealed (5 of 5)

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Neurons Responsible for Over-eating Revealed (5 of 5)

video: A video showing how optogenetic activation of the extended amygdala-hypothalamic circuit rapidly evokes voracious feeding of high-fat foods. This video relates to a paper that appeared in the 27 September, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Joshua Jennings at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, N.C., and colleagues was titled, "The Inhibitory Circuit Architecture of the Lateral Hypothalamus Orchestrates Feeding." view more 

Credit: [Video courtesy of Josh Jennings]


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