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When attempting to lose weight, it’s suggested that one should focus ___________ on changing diet and ____________ on increasing exercise.

A person eats a very salty dinner. This increases the amount of salt in the extracellular fluid while decreasing the amount of water. This will create ______________thirst.

Although many areas of the brain are involved in satiation (stopping eating), which area of the hypothalamus was known as the  “feeding center” for a long time?

If the _____________ is lesioned in a rat, it will cause the animal to eat a lot and gain weight.

_____________ is known as the  “hunger hormone”  because it induces hunger when its levels are elevated in the body.

The _______________ is not blocked by the blood-brain barrier. This enables it to provide information to the arcuate nucleus (ARC) about levels of chemicals, such as carbohydrates and hormones.

One theory of the function of dreaming is the idea that the cortex is just trying to make sense of all the high-frequency brain wave activity. This is called the:

What is the glucostatic theory? Describe an experiment that supports this theory.

What are ob/ob mice and db/db mice? How are they used as models for research on human disease?

How do the genes called period and timeless affect the regulation of the rhythmic activity of cells?