Researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center provide critical insight into how the brain and body work together to ...

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

Scientists have identified a liver hormone, FGF21, that acts on specific hindbrain neurons to regulate appetite and metabolism, offering a potential new target for obesity and metabolic disease ...

Researchers discovered that the liver hormone FGF21 signals hindbrain neurons to control appetite and metabolism during ...

A new study from Pennington Biomedical Research Center reveals that the liver hormone FGF21 directly targets specific hindbrain neurons to regulate food intake and energy use during protein ...