Not Just Weight Loss: The Unexpected Brain Benefits of an Anti-Obesity Drug

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Not Just Weight Loss: The Unexpected Brain Benefits of an Anti-Obesity Drug
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The next morning, the subjects were given a learning task that allowed the researchers to measure how well associative learning works. They found that the ability to associate sensory stimuli was less pronounced in participants with obesity than in those of normal weight and that brain activity was reduced in the areas encoding this learning behavior.

“These findings are of fundamental importance. We show here that basic behaviors such as associative learning depend not only on external environmental conditions but also on the body’s metabolic state. So, whether someone is overweight or not also determines how the brain learns to associate sensory signals and what motivation is generated.

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