TY - JOUR
T1 - The brain is getting ready for dinner
AU - Tschöp, Matthias H.
AU - Castaňeda, Tamara R.
AU - Woods, Stephen C.
PY - 2006/10
Y1 - 2006/10
N2 - Every evening, as we get ready for dinner, in addition to the routine behaviors of preparing the meal itself, we also prepare our bodies to cope with the upcoming meal. This could take the form of making restaurant reservations, changing into appropriate attire, washing hands, priming ourselves with an aperitif, or even consciously avoiding snacks as the meal approaches. A study by Johnstone and colleagues in this issue of Cell Metabolism (Johnstone et al., 2006) provides evidence that in parallel to our learned preparatory behaviors, our central nervous system is going through comparable motions as it gets ready for the anticipated meal.
AB - Every evening, as we get ready for dinner, in addition to the routine behaviors of preparing the meal itself, we also prepare our bodies to cope with the upcoming meal. This could take the form of making restaurant reservations, changing into appropriate attire, washing hands, priming ourselves with an aperitif, or even consciously avoiding snacks as the meal approaches. A study by Johnstone and colleagues in this issue of Cell Metabolism (Johnstone et al., 2006) provides evidence that in parallel to our learned preparatory behaviors, our central nervous system is going through comparable motions as it gets ready for the anticipated meal.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=33748922096&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.cmet.2006.09.001
DO - 10.1016/j.cmet.2006.09.001
M3 - Short survey
C2 - 17011496
AN - SCOPUS:33748922096
SN - 1550-4131
VL - 4
SP - 257
EP - 258
JO - Cell Metabolism
JF - Cell Metabolism
IS - 4
ER -