The role of serotonin in depression and antidepressant treatment remains unresolved
despite decades of research. In this paper, we make three major claims. First, serotonin …

Because daily food intake is the product of the size of a meal and the frequency of meals
ingested, the characteristic of meal size to meal number during a 24-h light–dark cycle …

The changes in the brain signaling systems play an important role in etiology and
pathogenesis of Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and metabolic syndrome (MS), being a …

Chronic variate stress was seen to decrease the ingestion of sweet food when compared to
control rats. Brain monoamines are known to be involved in the control of food intake …

In the last years the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) was carried out using
regulators of the brain signaling systems. In DM2 the level of the brain serotonin is reduced …

Understanding how dopamine (DA) encodes behavior depends on technologies that can
reliably monitor DA release in freely-behaving animals. Recently, red and green genetically …

Obesity is increasing in severity and prevalence in the United States and represents a major
public health issue. No effective pharmacologic treatment leading to sustained weight loss …

Eating Disorders presents a comprehensive and accessible investigation of eating
disorders, spanning topics such as historical and cross-cultural trends in prevalence of …

As revealed by previous microdialysis studies, basal and food intake-accompanied
dopamine release significantly differs in the hypothalamus of obese vs. lean Zucker rats. In …

Low birthweight (LBW) is associated with metabolic complications, such as glucose and lipid
metabolism disturbances in early life. The objective of this study was to assess:(1) the effect …