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Communication in the brain changes during a diet: Study
Updated On: 05 April, 2023 09:03 AM IST | Washington | ANI
Researchers put mice on a diet and assessed which circuits in the brain changed. In particular, they found that neuronal pathways that stimulate AgRP neurons sent increased signals when the mice were on a diet
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These findings could help develop drugs to help maintain reduced body weight after dieting. Photo Courtesy: iStock
New research shows how communication in the brain changes during a diet. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research and Harvard Medical School carried out this research on mice which showed that the nerve cells that mediate the feeling of hunger receive stronger signals so that the mice eat significantly more after the diet and gain weight more quickly. In the long term, these findings could help develop drugs to prevent this amplification and help to maintain reduced body weight after dieting.
"People have looked mainly at the short-term effects of dieting. We wanted to see what changes in the brain in the long term," explains Henning Fenselau, a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, who led the study.
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