Neural Mechanisms in Eating Behaviour 0.0 / 5 ? PsychologyEating disordersA2/A-levelAQA Created by: daisygbatesCreated on: 08-04-16 12:13 426583179 Across 1. Appetite boosting hormone (7) 4. The condition where there is an absence of eating is called? (7) 5. Study in 2005 that found that genetically manipulating mice not to produce NPY did NOT decrease feeding behaviour (5, 2, 2) 7. A decline in blood glucose causes the activation of the lateral hypothalamus. A rise in blood glucose activates the ____________ hypothalamus (12) 9. This explanation focuses only on neural mechanisms - it takes into account only the biological approach, making it ____________ (12) Down 2. The fact that most research in this area has been done on animals makes it difficult to __________ to humans (10) 3. Psychologist that discovered that ob/ob rats have defective leptin genes - injection of the protein caused dramatic weight loss (5) 6. Evidence by these two pyschologists shows that the amygdala is involved in olfactory processing (processing of smells) (4, 3, 5) 8. The name for the process in which the body attempts to keep itself in an optimal state (11)
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