When:
Friday, June 27, 2025
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CT
Where: Ward Building, 5-230, 303 E. Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Jenna Ward
(815) 529-6182
Group: Department of Neuroscience Seminars
Category: Lectures & Meetings
Animals eat for multiple reasons – fulfilling caloric needs, storing energy for the future, and experiencing pleasure. Modern food environments are full of opportunities to overeat, which has resulted in a worldwide epidemic of obesity. This lecture will introduce multiple neural circuits that control eating, comparing hypothalamic circuitry that controls eating for caloric need to basal forebrain circuitry that governs eating independent of caloric need.