Hypothalamus Changes: Obesity Alters The Brain Area Involved In Body Weight Control
Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 18:00
in Health & Medicine
The number of people with one or more of the adverse complications of obesity, including type 2 diabetes and heart disease is rapidly increasing. Drugs designed to treat obesity have shown limited efficacy and have been associated with serious side effects, largely because we have limited understanding of the effects of obesity on our natural mechanisms of body weight control. For example, while great strides have been made in our understanding of how the brain controls our desire to feed, as well as the processes underlying the balancing of energy intake and expenditure, little is known about how the are altered by obesity. Two independent groups of researchers have now generated data that begin to address this issue. read more