2. Neurobiology of appetite regulation

Phil tells Sam why his weight is fairly stable, what happens in his brain when he gets hungry and what changes when he has eaten. We talk about the adipostat, leptin, ghrelin and obesity, why we choose particular foods and how dopamine, opioids and (probably) serotonin are involved.

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2. Neurobiology of appetite regulation is an episode from Swansea University College of Medicine: Neuroscience by Dr Samuel Webster.

This episode is 48:25 long.

This episode was published on Mar 10, 2010.

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