{"id":131179,"date":"2021-11-24T19:22:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T03:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/ns-the-brain-has-a-compass-for-navigating-thoughts"},"modified":"2021-11-24T19:22:21","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T03:22:21","slug":"ns-the-brain-has-a-compass-for-navigating-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/ns-the-brain-has-a-compass-for-navigating-thoughts","title":{"rendered":"NS\/ The brain has a \u201ccompass\u201d for navigating thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ns-the-brain-has-a-compass-for-navigating-thoughts2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neuroscience biweekly vol. 46, 10th November \u2014 24th November.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing that you can still find areas of the brain that are important for basic survival behaviors that we had never before implicated,\u201d Betley says. \u201cAnd these brain regions are important in robust ways.\u201d The work, shared in the journal Nature, suggests that neurons in the cerebellum\u2019s anterior deep cerebellar nuclei (aDCN) are involved in helping animals regulate their meal size. Since its start, Betley\u2019s lab has unraveled a variety of neural circuits related to how the brain regulates food intake. That work as well as other research has implicated areas of the hindbrain and hypothalmus in this control.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neuroscience biweekly vol. 46, 10th November \u2014 24th November. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing that you can still find areas of the brain that are important for basic survival behaviors that we had never before implicated,\u201d Betley says. \u201cAnd these brain regions are important in robust ways.\u201d The work, shared in the journal Nature, suggests that neurons in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}