Lecture 18- Motivation Flashcards
What does behaviour (motor activation) occur in response to?
1.Reflex stimulation- dropping a hot object= automatic 2.Conscious or willful command (motivated behaviour)
What does motivated behaviour occur in response to?
-response to body’s absolute requirements (eating when hungry) -or by abstract things (reading a book) -motivation= driving force on behaviour
What is energy balance an example of?
- example of tightly controlled homeostatic process -go up and down bodyweight but mostly stable -can take away food= still stay the same weight for a bit, then drops -give food again= body weight goes to normal -force feed the animal= heavier, then stop and comes back to normal -set point of body weight= the one the body wants
What is the lipostatic hypothesis?
-it is the fat that is being monitored in a body to maintain body weight
What part of the brain is key in lipstatic homeostasis?
hypothalamus is key in this
- 3 nuclei
- paraventricular nucleus
- lateral hypothalamic area
- arcuate nucleus
(disruption in these 3 nuclei= big change in bodyweight)
What happens when you have a lesion of lateral hypothalamus?
- lateral hypothalamic syndrome
- get really skinny
What happens when you have a lesion of ventromedial hypothalamus?
- ventromedial hypothalamic syndrome
- get fat
What is between your scapuli?
-brown adipose tissue -storgage -receives sympathetic innervation -when gets a signal undergoes process where it burns energy and makes heat -because it is peripheral the heat is lost -so wasting the energy -this is a way very thin people who don’t exercise stay thin
What are the neurons involved in the energy control of the body (brown tissue)?
- in arcuate nucleus, two types of neurons that are key in the process
- 1.neuropeptide y (makes it) so the name of it is this
- 2.agouti related peptide
- 3.POMC (propiomelanocortin) neuron
What do the AgRP and NPY cause?
-release of these peptides will increase food intake (The Agouti related peptide and neuro peptide Y), decrease energy expenditure (less activity of the brown adipose tissue)
What does the POMC cause?
produces= , peptide called alpha alphaMSH (alpha melanocyte stimulating hormone)= that is the important =inhibits food intake and increases energy expenditure (more active brown adipose tissue)
What is in the arcuate nucleus?
-energy intake stimulating and inhibiting neurons, then go to second order neurons to modulate behaviour
What is the interaction of alphaMSH and AgRP?
- POMC neuron release sits ligand: alpha MSH stimulates the MC4 receptor (eg. lateral thalamus) to inhibit feeding behaviour
- AgRP is being released from the other class of neurons= it is a functional antagonist of alpha MSH, binds to the same receptor
- blocking the alpha MSH from binding
- NPY acts through a different receptor (so the AgRP inhibits alpha MSH and NPY activates sth)
Which receptor do AgRP and alphaMSH act through?
MC4
Where do the alphaMSHT neurons project to?
–to lateral hypothalamic area where the inhibit feeding behaviour
- to paraventricular nucleus= these do two things
1: stimulate release of ACTH (mobilizes energy stores)
2: activate sympathetic outflows to affects the brown adipose tissue= so expend more energy - bring bodyweight down