Feeding hormone ghrelin modulates ability of rewarding food to evoke dopamine release
Tuesday, July 12, 2011 - 02:00
in Health & Medicine
New research findings to be presented at the upcoming 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 ghrelin, a natural gut hormone that stimulates feeding, also modulates the ability of tasty food and food-related cues to alter dopamine levels within the striatum, a critical component of the brain's reward system.