Dr. Pasantes is investigating how the brain regulates patterns of eating behavior. She performs an experiment and finds that lesioning a particular brain region causes rodents to completely stop eating. What area of the brain has Dr. Pasantes lesioned?
a. the lateral hypothalamus
b. the ventromedial hypothalamus
c. the lateral amygdala
d. the ventromedial amygdala
Question 2
The body monitors fat stores by assessing levels of the hormone ____, which is produced and secreted by fat cells.
a. insulin
b. glucocorticoid
c. calcitonin
d. leptin
The hemispheres of the human brain.
Stable folding patterns in proteins
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The locations in the rat brain of the ventromedial hypothalamus and the lateral hypothalamus.
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