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Eating Behaviour - Biological Explanations Flashcards

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Evolutionary explanations of eating behaviour?

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Evolution of food preferences in the EEA

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Neural mechanisms involved in eating behaviour?

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Homeostasis, lateral hypothalamus, ventromedial hypothalamus, neurotransmitters, drugs, neural control of cognitive factors

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What is homeostasis?

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Act of detecting the state of the internal environment and correcting the situation to restore it to it’s optimum state

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Role of the lateral hypothalamus?

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Hunger centre which turns on eating

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LH is activated by?

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Decrease of glucose and increase of ghrelin

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What is ghrelin?

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Hormone produced in the stomachs lining

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Damage to the LH in rats caused…

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Aphagia (absence of eating)

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Role of the VMH?

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Satiety centre for turning off eating

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Turns on eating?

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LH

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Turns off eating?

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VMH

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VMH is activated by?

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Rise of glucose and leptin, decrease of ghrelin and CCK release

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What is leptin?

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LT satiety signal by fat cells

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Damage to the VMH in rats caused…

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Hyperphagia (excess of eating)

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Gold?

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Damage to the VMH tends to damage the para ventricular nucleus

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Neurotransmitters involved in eating?

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Neuropeptide Y (NPY)
Noradrenaline (NE)
Serotonin

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Role of NPY?

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Turns on eating

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NPY is found in…

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The hypothalamus

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Wilkens?

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NPY can cause rats to immediately begin feeding, even when satiated

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Research on NPY?

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Wilkens

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Role of NE?

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Stimulates feeding when injected into the PVN, but reduces feeding when injected into the perfornical area

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Role of serotonin?

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Activated muscles in gastrointestinal tract used for feeding and causes decrease in food intake

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Drugs influencing eating?

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Nicotine, amphetamines and marijuana

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Role of amygdala in eating?

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Selection of foods on the basis of past experience

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Research on amygdala?

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Rolls and rolls

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Rolls and rolls?
Amygdala-intact rats would initially avoid novel foods and consume familiar ones, but those with surgically removed amygdalas would consume familiar and novel foods indiscriminately
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Strengths of explanations of neural mechanisms?
Real life applications
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Weaknesses of neural explanations of eating behaviour?
Reductionist Animal studies Contradicting evidence
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Real life applications of neural explanation of eating?
Yang et al
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Yang et al?
Vicious cycle where NPY produced in the brain leads to more eating and production of more fat cells, which produce more NPY - we must target those at risk and turn it off
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Reductionism in the neural explanation of eating?
For hunger mechanisms to be adaptive they must both anticipate and prevent energy deficits, not just react
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Animal studies in the neural explanation of eating?
Tenuous and difficult to extrapolate
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Contradicting evidence for neural explanation of eating?
Marie et al
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Marie et al?
Mice genetically engineered so they didn't produce NPY shower no subsequent decrease in eating behaviour
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Where was the EEA?
2 million years ago on the African savannah
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Obesogenic environment?
Factors in our environment now support being obese - our food focus has changed as it is no longer about eating enough to avoid malnutrition
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Research on sweet foods?
Harris
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Harris?
Babies like sweet tastes from birth
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Why do we like sweet foods?
Rich in carbohydrates and energy, our ancestors were frugivores
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Why do we like salty foods?
To replace salts lost through sweating on the savannah as they're critical to cell functioning
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Research on salty foods?
Denton
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Denton?
Innate preferences for salty foods in animals
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Why do we like umami?
Receding forests forced hunting, catalyst for brain growth
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Research on umami foods?
Milton
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Milton?
Humans would've never evolved to be an active, intelligent species without meat
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Why do we not like sour foods?
May've gone off
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Why don't we like bitter foods?
May be poisonous
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Why do we like fatty foods?
High levels of energy needed in the EEA
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Research on fatty foods?
Burnham and Phelan
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Burnham and Phelan?
Preference for fatty foods comes from times of food scarcity where we needed calories
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Evolved tastes in early diets?
``` Sweet Salty Umami Sour and bitter Fatty ```
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Research on taste aversion?
Garcia et al
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Garcia et al?
Rats made ill through radiation after eating saccharin developed an aversion to it
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Research on the medicine effect?
Garcia et al
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Garcia et al? (Medicine effect)
When a distinctive flavour was presented to a thiamine deficient rat before an injection of thiamine, they acquired a preference for that flavour
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Strengths of evolutionary explanations for eating?
Real life applications
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Weaknesses of evolutionary explanations for eating?
Reductionist Unfalsifiable Ignores cultural influence
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Real life applications of evolutionary explanations for eating?
Scapegoat technique in chemo - Bernstein and Webster
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Bernstein and webster?
Gave patients a novel tasting ice cream prior to chemo and they acquired an aversion to it
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Reductionism in evolutionary explanations for eating?
Search for ultimate causes may mask proximate ones
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Unfalsifiablity in evolutionary explanations for eating?
Cordain et al v Abrams
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Cordain et al?
Ancestors could've been healthy eaters or vegetarians as they consumed most calories from sources other than animals
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Abrams?
Wouldn't have been possible for ancestors to be vegetarians as they wouldn't get sufficient calories
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Ignorance of cultural differences in evolutionary explanations for eating?
Evolved factors are modified by experiences determined by culture, eg spicy foods

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