Studies in neuroscience with applications to humans offer clues about what makes us start eating, and when we stop.

Instead of learning through repeated trial and error or experiences, one-shot learning is when a single experience creates a lasting memory in the brain. It is most commonly associated with traumatic ...

When mice encounter an unfamiliar food, neurons in a brain region called the amygdala light up (blue). If the mice start feeling sick after the meal, the same neurons get reinforced to help the mouse ...

The mice that lost the most weight ... For nearly a century, lab studies have shown consistent results: eat less food, or eat ...

For nearly a century, research has shown a clear link between eating ... at The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) and their ...

The mouse accesses food by eating from a spring-loaded feeder through an anti-foraging guard; this guard also prevents full body access to the dish. (For mice that weigh less than 12 g this is not ...

Not only that, but I've been told many times that pups start eating solid food by themselves before they are weaned. Don't we have two standards? Shouldn't we really put mouse pups on the census ...

As such, work on food poisoning in mice may ... delay between eating contaminated food and getting sick – what Zimmerman calls the "meal-to-malaise" delay. Working in the lab of Ilana Witten ...