This important study assessed the effects of food intake on sharp wave-ripples in the hippocampus of mice during subsequent sleep. Solid evidence supports the conclusion that sharp wave-ripples are ...

Researchers at Columbia University have discovered a unique group of neurons in the mouse brain that command the animal to ...

Nerve cells called pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC) neurons were found to be responsible for post-feeding sugar consumption.

Columbia scientists have found specialized neurons in the brains of mice that order the animals to stop eating. Though many feeding circuits in the brain are known to play a role in monitoring food ...

Sugar-responsive neurons encode and influence only sugar-related memories and intake. Disabling these neurons reduces sugar ...

A new study has found intermittent fasting could slow, or even reverse, the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.

Food intake was measured from the weight of food that went missing from the food hopper each day. Mice occasionally pulled pellets of food through the hopper bars or ground their food; therefore ...

The ability to regulate one's own food intake is essential to the survival ... subtypes in the mouse cNTS that are involved in how mice control their feeding behaviors. Their findings, published ...