Brain functional and structural magnetic resonance imaging of obesity and weight loss interventions

G Li, Y Hu, W Zhang, J Wang, W Ji, P Manza… - Molecular …, 2023 - nature.com
Obesity has tripled over the past 40 years to become a major public health issue, as it is
linked with increased mortality and elevated risk for various physical and neuropsychiatric …

The significance of hypothalamic inflammation and gliosis for the pathogenesis of obesity in humans

LE Sewaybricker, A Huang… - Endocrine …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Accumulated preclinical literature demonstrates that hypothalamic inflammation and gliosis
are underlying causal components of diet-induced obesity in rodent models. This review …

Automated segmentation of the hypothalamus and associated subunits in brain MRI

B Billot, M Bocchetta, E Todd, AV Dalca, JD Rohrer… - Neuroimage, 2020 - Elsevier
Despite the crucial role of the hypothalamus in the regulation of the human body,
neuroimaging studies of this structure and its nuclei are scarce. Such scarcity partially stems …

Cohort profile: the LIFE-adult-study

C Engel, K Wirkner, S Zeynalova… - International Journal …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
International Journal of Epidemiology, 2023, e66–e79 https://doi. org/10.1093/ije/dyac114
Advance Access Publication Date: 28 May 2022 Cohort Profile comprehensive molecular …

The prediction-error hypothesis of schizophrenia: new data point to circuit-specific changes in dopamine activity

SJ Millard, CE Bearden, KH Karlsgodt… - …, 2022 - nature.com
Schizophrenia is a severe psychiatric disorder affecting 21 million people worldwide. People
with schizophrenia suffer from symptoms including psychosis and delusions, apathy …

Is human obesity an inflammatory disease of the hypothalamus?

L Sonnefeld, N Rohmann, C Geisler… - European Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Obesity and its comorbidities are long-standing, challenging global health problems. Lack of
exercise, overnutrition, and especially the consumption of fat-rich foods are some of the most …

Role of sirtuins in modulating neurodegeneration of the enteric nervous system and central nervous system

P Chandramowlishwaran, A Vijay, D Abraham… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Neurodegeneration of the central and enteric nervous systems is a common feature of aging
and aging-related diseases, and is accelerated in individuals with metabolic dysfunction …

Extrinsic noise and heavy-tailed laws in gene expression

L Ham, RD Brackston, MPH Stumpf - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
Noise in gene expression is one of the hallmarks of life at the molecular scale. Here we
derive analytical solutions to a set of models describing the molecular mechanisms …

The interplay between ghrelin and microglia in neuroinflammation: implications for obesity and neurodegenerative diseases

C Russo, MS Valle, A Russo… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Numerous studies have shown that microglia are capable of producing a wide range of
chemokines to promote inflammatory processes within the central nervous system (CNS) …

The role of the human hypothalamus in food intake networks: An MRI perspective

C Roger, A Lasbleiz, M Guye, A Dutour, B Gaborit… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Hypothalamus (HT), this small structure often perceived through the prism of neuroimaging
as morphologically and functionally homogeneous, plays a key role in the primitive act of …