Late-Night Snacking: Your Brain Blame
Tuesday, May 5, 2015 - 17:10
in Psychology & Sociology
If you have ever wondered why you need to snack more at night and many people don't, there may be a neuroscience answer: areas of the brain that get a satiety "food high" may not get it in the evening. In a new study, exercise professors and a neuroscientist used MRI to measure how the brains of college students respond to high- and low-calorie food images at different times of the day. Functional MRI took pictures of the brain activity of study subjects while they viewed images of food. The participants viewed 360 images during two separate sessions held one week apart--one during morning hours and one during evening hours. read more