Saturday, December 29, 2018

Brain Seems to Reward Us Twice With Each Meal

A new study shows that the hormone dopamine is released two times during a meal: when the food is first ingested and when the food reaches the stomach.

“With the help of a new positron emission tomography (PET) technique we developed, we were not only able to find the two peaks of dopamine release, but we could also identify the specific brain regions that were associated with these releases,” said senior author Dr. Marc Tittgemeyer, head of the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism...


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