When U-M researchers gave extra morphine-like drug stimulation to the top of the neostriatum in rats, it caused the animals to eat twice the normal amount of sweet fatty food. For this study, that food was M&M milk chocolate candies. The neostriatum is located near the middle and front of the brain. Image credit: Alexandra Difeliceantonio
ANN ARBOR, Mich.–(ENEWSPF)–September 21, 2012. A part of the brain usually thought to control movement also may cause people…
