Feeding behaviour articles within Nature Communications

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• Article | 06 August 2013

  The impact of sleep deprivation on food desire in the human brain

  Insufficient sleep is a known risk factor for obesity. Greeret al.show that sleep deprivation amplifies mesolimbic brain responses to food stimuli, yet impairs activity in higher cortical areas, which, together, are associated with an increased desire for high-calorie food items.

  • Stephanie M. Greer
  • , Andrea N. Goldstein
  •  & Matthew P. Walker

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  07 June 2013 | Open Access

  The orphan receptor Gpr83 regulates systemic energy metabolism via ghrelin-dependent and ghrelin-independent mechanisms

  The murine G protein-coupled receptor 83 (Gpr83) is expressed widely in the brain, but its physiological role is largely unknown. Here Müller et al.show that Gpr83 regulates systemic energy metabolism in part by modulating ghrelin signalling in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus.

  • Timo D. Müller
  • , Anne Müller
  •  & Matthias H. Tschöp

• Article | 14 May 2013

  Clusterin and LRP2 are critical components of the hypothalamic feeding regulatory pathway

  Clusterin is widely distributed in tissues and body fluids, and is implicated in various physiological processes. In this study the authors investigate the role of hypothalamic clusterin, and find that clusterin regulates energy metabolism and body weight through the lipoprotein receptor LRP2.

  • So Young Gil
  • , Byung-Soo Youn
  •  & Min-Seon Kim

• Article | 26 February 2013

  Haematopoietic cells produce BDNF and regulate appetite upon migration to the hypothalamus

  Brain-derived neurotrophic factor is produced in the brain and is a known regulator of energy homoeostasis. Here Urabe and colleagues show that brain-derived neurotrophic factor-producing haematopoietic cells control appetite by migrating into the hypothalamus, where they make contact with neurons.

  • Hiroshi Urabe
  • , Hideto Kojima
  •  & Hiroshi Kimura

• Article | 10 April 2012

  Dissecting a central flip-flop circuit that integrates contradictory sensory cues in C. elegans feeding regulation

  Animals sense multiple environmental cues simultaneously and use this sensory information to regulate feeding behaviour, which is fundamental to survival. Li and co-workers describe a central circuit inCaenorhabditis elegansthat can be activated by attractive odours or repellents to facilitate or suppress feeding behaviour.

  • Zhaoyu Li
  • , Yidong Li
  •  & Tao Xu

• Article | 20 December 2011

  Rapid adaptation to food availability by a dopamine-mediated morphogenetic response

  Food availability elicits behavioural and developmental responses. Adamset al. show that, in sea urchin larvae, food availability mediates developmental plasticity by regulating changes in arm length through dopamine signalling, a pathway widely used to mediate food-induced behavioural responses.

  • Diane K. Adams
  • , Mary A. Sewell
  •  & Lynne M. Angerer

• Article | 18 October 2011

  Behavioural memory reconsolidation of food and fear memories

  Memory retrieval followed by extinction training has been shown to erase fear memories. Flavellet al. show that this approach also erases appetitive memories in rats and results from a modification of memory reconsolidation, which could be useful for the treatment of drug addiction.

  • Charlotte R. Flavell
  • , David J. Barber
  •  & Jonathan L.C. Lee

• Article | 17 May 2011

  Food restriction enhances visual cortex plasticity in adulthood

  Calorie restriction has been associated with increased life span and delayed decline of memory in animals, suggesting a role in neuronal plasticity. In this study, food restriction is demonstrated to enhance plasticity in the central nervous system and trigger the recovery from ocular deprivation in adulthood.

  • Maria Spolidoro
  • , Laura Baroncelli
  •  & Lamberto Maffei