Adiposity hormone, leptin, regulates food intake by influencing learning and memory
Tuesday, July 13, 2010 - 04:35
in Health & Medicine
Research to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB), the foremost society for research into all aspects of eating and drinking behavior, finds that the hormone leptin reduces food intake, in part, by activating the hippocampus, an area of the brain that controls learning and memory function. Leptin is a hormone released from fat cells that acts on the brain to inhibit feeding.
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