Activating MSc glutamatergic neurons found to cause mice to eat less

(Medical Xpress)—A trio of researchers working at the State University of New York has found that artificially stimulating neurons that exist in the medial septal complex in mouse brains caused test mice to eat less. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Patrick Sweeney, Changhong Li and Yunlei Yang describe experiments they carried out with mice and what their findings may represent for future studies aimed at controlling overeating in humans.