The overconsumption of highly caloric and palatable foods has caused a surge in obesity
rates in the past half century, thereby posing a healthcare challenge due to the array of …

All animals possess a plethora of innate behaviors that do not require extensive learning
and are fundamental for their survival and propagation. With the advent of newly-developed …

Feeding behavior is regulated by both the homeostatic needs of the body and hedonic
values of the food. Easy access to palatable energy-dense foods and the consequent …

Food intake behavior is regulated by a network of appetite-inducing and appetite-
suppressing neuronal populations throughout the brain. The parasubthalamic nucleus …

Oxytocin (OXT) plays important roles in autonomic control and behavioral modulation.
However, it is unknown how the projection patterns of OXT neurons align with underlying …

Feeding requires sophisticated orchestration of neural processes to satiate appetite in
natural, capricious settings. However, the complementary roles of discrete neural …

The decision to either approach or avoid a potentially threatening environment is thought to
rely upon the coordinated activity of heterogeneous neural populations in the hippocampus …

Objective An environmental context, which reliably predicts food availability, can increase
the appetitive food drive within the same environment context. However, hunger is required …

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Hunger is an internal state that not only invigorates feeding but also acts as a contextual cue
for higher-order control of anticipatory feeding-related behavior. The ventral hippocampus is …