Mice fed a high-fat diet and treated with hormone-secreting ... Results support the method's potential as a noninvasive vector for brain-targeted therapies. While the study used an appetite ...

UC Berkeley researchers found that chronic high-fat diets reduce neurotensin, a brain peptide that enhances dopamine-driven food pleasure. This loss of enjoyment in eating may contribute to obesity.

A study published Wednesday indicates that low levels of a key brain chemical among overweight patients with high-fat diets is responsible for a loss of pleasure from food. Advertisement ...

Although many of us like to indulge from time to time, it turns out that a high-fat diet can alter the brain after just a few days, even in healthy adults. A study published in Immunity & Ageing ...

Just a few days of eating a diet high in saturated fat could be enough to cause memory problems and related brain inflammation in older adults, a new study in rats suggests. Researchers fed ...