Obese Humans and Rats

by Judith Rodin and Stanley Schacter

Originally published in 1974, this volume examines the behavioural similarities of obese humans and animals whose so-called feeding centre (the ventro-medial hypothalamic nuclei) has been lesioned. Both the obese human and the VMH-lesioned animal seem to share a hyposensitivity to the internal (physiological) cues to eating and hypersensitivity to external cues associated with food. Beginning with a review, these obese animals and the human obese...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138829579
• ISBN13: 9781138829572
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"