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Home - Blog - The Mouse Who Came to Dinner a Little Less Hungry

The Mouse Who Came to Dinner a Little Less Hungry

Obesity is a serious public health concern that science has struggled to manage. This video provides a glimpse into the future where neurons in a specific region of the brain—the amygdala—are targeted to suppress natural appetite.

The mouse in this video may be a crude prototype of a future treatment for humans since scientists believe there are enough similarities between this network of—perhaps, as many as a few thousand neurons— in both the human and mouse brains.

Here’s a link to the full NYT article: A Mouse Switch Turns Off Appetite

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August 12, 2014

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