Study links insulin action on brain's reward circuitry to obesity

Tuesday, June 7, 2011 - 13:00 in Health & Medicine

Researchers reporting in the June issue of Cell Metabolism have what they say is some of the first solid proof that insulin has direct effects on the reward circuitry of the brain. Mice whose reward centers can no longer respond to insulin eat more and become obese, they show.

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