2nd Edition

Appetite and Food Intake Central Control, Second Edition

Edited By Ruth Harris Copyright 2017
324 Pages 10 Color & 35 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

324 Pages 10 Color & 35 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

324 Pages 10 Color & 35 B/W Illustrations
by CRC Press

Nearly half of the world’s adult population is either clinically obese or overweight. Excess weight increases risk for multiple other chronic diseases and represents a major global health issue. Weight gain results from an imbalance between energy intake and expenditure, which can only be corrected if the physiologic and neuroendocrine systems that have the potential to control energy balance are... Read more

Appetite control in C. elegans
Kristen Davis, Mi Cheong Cheong, Ji Su Park and Young-Jai You

Central and peripheral regulation of appetite and food intake in Drosophila
Audrey Branch and Ping Shen

The hamster as a model for human ingestive behavior
Ruth B.S. Harris

Beyond homeostasis: Understanding the impact of sychosocial factors on appetite using nonhuman primate models
Mark E Wilson and Vasiliki Michopoulos

Untangling appetite circuits with optogenetics and chemogenetics
Michael J. Krashes

The use of functional MRI in the study of appetite and obesity
Selin Neseliler, Jung-Eun Han, Alain Dagher

Development of hypothalamic circuits that control food intake and energy balance
Sebastien G. Bouret

Maternal and epigenetic factors that influence food intake and energy balance in offspring
Lin Song, Miranda D Johnson, and Kellie L Tamashiro

Monitoring and maintenance of brain glucose supply: importance of hindbrain catecholamine neurons in this multifaceted task
Sue Ritter

Hindbrain astrocyte glucodetectors and counter-regulation
Richard C. Rogers, David H. McDougal, and Gerlinda E. Hermann

Vagal afferent signaling and the integration of direct and indirect controls of food intake
Robert C. Ritter, Carlos A. Campos, Jason Nasse and James H. Peters

Energy metabolism and appetite control: Separate roles for fat-free mass and fat mass in the control of food intake in humans.
Mark Hopkins and John E Blundell

Pharmacotherapy for weight loss
Thomas A. Lutz and Lori Asarian

Biography

Ruth Harris