{"id":803,"date":"2023-06-09T21:23:06","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T21:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xpertwitness.co.uk\/?p=803"},"modified":"2023-06-10T04:23:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T04:23:28","slug":"human-neurons-and-compulsive-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xpertwitness.co.uk\/?p=803","title":{"rendered":"Human Neurons and Compulsive Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"803\" class=\"elementor elementor-803\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6b9a005 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"6b9a005\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-604917d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"604917d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Hunger Neurons cause compulsive behaviour<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-107f623 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"107f623\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/smshealthcareltd.com\/wordpress\/2023\/05\/21\/\">May 21, 2023<\/a><\/li><li>3:27 pm<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/smshealthcareltd.com\/wordpress\/author\/admin_2q2s654t\/\">Dr Saal Seneviratne<\/a><\/li><\/ul><h2>Hypothalamic Agrp Neurons Drive Stereotypic Behaviors beyond Feeding<\/h2><p>Cell published\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cell.2015.02.024\">this article<\/a>\u00a0in March 2023.<\/p><p>The nervous system in our bodies has developed to help us do different things based on our goals. It does this by bringing together information from inside our bodies (like how hungry or full we feel) and information from our senses (like what we see, hear, and touch). There are special cells in a part of the brain called the hypothalamus called Agrp neurons that are really important for controlling how we eat. But now we\u2019ve found out that these neurons also control other complex behaviors in adult mice.<\/p><p>When these Agrp neurons are active even when there\u2019s no food around, it makes the mice start searching for food and doing the same actions over and over again. But when they finally eat something, these behaviors stop. It\u2019s interesting because these actions that the Agrp neurons make the mice do also help them feel less anxious.<\/p><p>We also discovered that a special system in the body called the NPY5 receptor is needed to make the repetitive behaviors happen after the Agrp neurons are active, but it doesn\u2019t have much effect on making the mice eat. So, the Agrp neurons are important for controlling repetitive behaviors, at least partly, by using something called neuropeptides.<\/p><p>These findings help us understand more about the different things our bodies do to keep our energy balanced, and they also give us some ideas for possible treatments for conditions where people do the same things over and over again.<\/p><p>I found this article from the\u00a0<u>Yale News site<\/u><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunger Neurons cause compulsive behaviour May 21, 2023 3:27 pm Dr Saal Seneviratne Hypothalamic Agrp Neurons Drive Stereotypic Behaviors beyond Feeding Cell published&nbsp;this article&nbsp;in March 2023. The nervous system in our bodies has developed to help us do different things based on our goals. It does this by bringing together information from inside our bodies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xpertwitness.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xpertwitness.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xpertwitness.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpertwitness.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpertwitness.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xpertwitness.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xpertwitness.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpertwitness.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xpertwitness.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}