login
Become a member
Quick Registration
Full Registration Benefits -
Free Homepages for Doctors
Free Homepages for Hospitals
Free Homepages for Medical Conference
Free Homepages for NGO's
Personal Health Record Creation
Access to all Medical Slides
Access to all Jobs & Products Sale
Hormone Ghrelin Responsible for Making Food Look Appealing When Hungry
The study found through brain scans that volunteers had a bigger effect of desire when they were shown pictures of food after an injection of the hormone. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), the researchers assessed the brain's response to food and non-food images in 12 volunteers who were given ghrelin and 8 others who did not receive the hormone.
"When you go to the supermarket hungry, every food looks better. Your brain assigns a cost versus benefit to every food item. Now, we've found that it is ghrelin that acts on the brain to make food more appealing," said lead researcher Dr Alain Dagher, from McGill University.
The brain scans showed that ghrelin was responsible for increasing activity in the reward centers of the brain.
"Food pictures become even more salient - people actually see them better. It influences not only visual processing, but also memory. People remembered the food pictures better when ghrelin was high," said Dr Dagher.
The details of the study appear in the journal Cell Metabolism.
Source-Medindia
RAS/L
|
|
More News on: Why Do We Eat - Nutrition Facts, Diet Lifestyle and Heart Disease, Hunger Fullness and Weight Control, Label Lingo on Food Items: Decoded
 Comment & Contribute
|
Medwonders Health Network
- Health News Index
- News Quick Links
 | News Central | | Health Watch | |
| Latest Health News | | Health In Focus | |
| News Category (500+) | | Breaking Health News | |
| Popular News | | Celebrating Life | |
| Health News and Press Release | | Medindia - Exclusive | |
| News Photo Gallery | | India Special | |
| News Video Gallery | | Lifestyle and Wellness | |
| News From Other Resources | |||
| News Categories: |
| » | Cardio-Pulmonary Function can be a Strong Indicator for Survival Chances of Breast Cancer Patients |
| » | Post Surgery Will the Tumour Return? New Breast Cancer Test to Predict Exactly |
| » | Scientists Develop Compound That Triggers Cancer Cell Death |
| » | Iraqi National Hopes to Find Affordable Treatment for His Cancer in India |
| » | New Technique can Help Doctors Detect Pancreatic Cancer |
| More Cancer News | |
|
General News |
||||||||
| » | Written Communication Contains Higher Frequency of Positive Words | » | Canadian Research Urges US and Europe to Implement New System for Regulating Probiotics | |||||
| » | To Err Appeals Cruder Judgment for Male Bosses Than Women | » | Emotionally Intelligent Easily Conned | |||||
| » | Ukraine Passes Law To Ban Smoking in Public Places | » | Eating 'Bushmeat' Could Lead to Next HIV Pandemic | |||||
| » | Reduction In Cost Of Anti Malarial Drugs Thanks To New Process | » | Younger People Who are Disagreeable Likelier to Prefer Aggressive Dogs | |||||
| Read More >> | ||||||||
