Food is consumed in order to maintain energy balance at homeostatic levels. In addition,
palatable food is also consumed for its hedonic properties independent of energy status. Such …

Drug addiction is a chronic relapsing disorder characterized by compulsive drug intake, loss
of control over intake, and impairment in social and occupational function. Animal models …

The hedonic properties of food can stimulate feeding behaviour even when energy requirements
have been met, contributing to weight gain and obesity. Similarly, the hedonic effects of …

This paper presents an extension of our previous work which proposes a new speaker
representation for speaker verification. In this modeling, a new low-dimensional speaker- and …

We found that development of obesity was coupled with emergence of a progressively worsening
deficit in neural reward responses. Similar changes in reward homeostasis induced by …

Recent efforts have revealed that numerous protein-coding messenger RNAs have natural
antisense transcript partners, most of which seem to be noncoding RNAs. Here we identify a …

Microglia, the brain’s resident macrophages, help to regulate brain function by removing dying
neurons, pruning non-functional synapses, and producing ligands that support neuronal …

Genetic variation in CHRNA5, the gene encoding the α5 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
subunit, increases vulnerability to tobacco addiction and lung cancer, but the underlying …

Hypocretin-1 and -2 (Hcrt-1 and Hcrt-2), also referred to as orexin-A and -B, are neuropeptides
synthesized by a few thousand neurons in the lateral hypothalamus. Hypocretin-…

The X-linked transcriptional repressor methyl CpG binding protein 2 (MeCP2), known for its
role in the neurodevelopmental disorder Rett syndrome, is emerging as an important …