Thursday, February 9, 2012

Scientists ID brain circuits responsible for binge eating

(United Press International) UPDATED 2009-09-14
University of Missouri researchers say they've found the brain circuits that control the desire to look for and binge on food. When scientists deactivated a circuit in the brain responsible for regulating emotion, they found that mice continued to look for fatty food, but they did not binge on it. The deactivated circuit did not prevent the mice from eating normal amounts when they were hungry, scientists noted. Now researchers say that understanding this binge-eating circuit could lead to treatments that may help prevent the 'drug-like' reaction caused in some people when they overeat junk food.  Read full story >
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