Eating Neural mechanisms controlling eating behaviour

Question 1

What did Anand and Brobeck find in 1951?

Answer 1

Rats no longer ate and starved themselves following a lesion in the lateral hypothalamus.

Question 2

What did Cummings find in 2004?

Answer 2

Ghrelin fell dramatically right after lunch. For 5/6 ppts ghrelin levels correlated closely with hunger levels. Measured in between lunch and dinner.

Question 3

What did Hetherington and Ranson find in 1942.

Answer 3

Lesioning the ventromedial hypothalamus in rats led to them over-eating past satiety levels.

Question 4

What did Carlson find?

Answer 4

Mice with no leptin became obese. When they were injected with leptin they lost weight.

Question 5

Rats no longer ate and starved themselves following a lesion in the lateral hypothalamus.

Answer 5

Anand and Brobeck, 1951.

Question 6

Ghrelin fell dramatically right after lunch. For 5/6 ppts ghrelin levels correlated closely with hunger levels. Measured in between lunch and dinner.

Answer 6

Cummings, 2004.

Question 7

Lesioning the ventromedial hypothalamus in rats led to them over-eating past satiety levels.

Answer 7

Hetherington and Ranson, 1942.

Question 8

Mice with no leptin became obese. When they were injected with leptin they lost weight.

Answer 8

Carlson.