ZEIGLER, H. P., H.L. GREEN AND J. SIEGEL. Food and water intake and weight regulation in the pigeon. PHYSIOL. BEHAV. 8 (1) 127-134, 1972.-The interaction of eating and drinking and the relation between intake and body weight was examined in pigeons maintained under laboratory conditions in order to obtain normative data on intake and weight regulation in this Species. Under ad lib conditions fo...

Dietary restraint theoretically increases risk for binge eating, but prospective and experimental studies have produced contradictory findings, apparently because dietary restraint scales do not identify individuals who are reducing caloric intake. Yet, experimentally manipulated caloric deprivation increases responsivity of brain regions implicated in attention and reward to food images, which...

i Abstract This thesis challenges the assumption that poor functional outcomes are likely to be obtained when a cochlear implant is placed in an ear with long-term auditory deprivation. While previous research has shown that poor outcomes tend to be associated with long-term deafness and poor residual hearing in both ears, outcomes have not been examined in cases where implantation is performed...

The fetal genome regulates maternal physiology and behavior via its placenta, which produces hormones that act on the maternal hypothalamus. At the same time, the fetus itself develops a hypothalamus. In this study we show that many of the genes that regulate placental development also regulate the developing hypothalamus, and in mouse the coexpression of these genes is particularly high on emb...

Visual deprivation during the critical period induces long-lasting changes in cortical circuitry by adaptively modifying neuro-transmission and synaptic connectivity at synapses. Spike timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) is considered a strong candidate for experience-dependent changes. However, the visual deprivation forms that affect timing-dependent long-term potentiation(LTP) and long-term d...