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By tmbotuser
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Posted January 30, 2015

Researchers Discover Brain Circuit that Controls Compulsive Overeating and Sugar Addiction

Compulsive overeating and sugar addiction are major threats to human health, but potential treatments face the risk of impairing normal feeding behaviors that are crucial for survival. A study [...]

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By tmbotuser
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Posted January 30, 2015

Why Your Brain Makes It So Hard To Stop Eating

Being overweight or obese usually isn’t really about the body – it’s about the brain. Overeating and compulsive eating are often about how the brain resorts back to ancient eating habits that are [...]

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 Newly identified brain circuit could be target for treating obesity
By tmbotuser
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Posted January 30, 2015

Newly identified brain circuit could be target for treating obesity

Nerve cells that control overeating are distinct from those active in normal feeding, study shows manipulating specific sets of brain cells can quash a mouse’s overindulgence of sugar. The cells [...]

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 Brain Cells Behind Overeating
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Posted January 30, 2015

Brain Cells Behind Overeating

Scientists have defined neurons responsible for excessive food consumption at an unprecedented level of detail. Two independent research teams have defined populations of neurons in the [...]

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By tmbotuser
In News
Posted January 30, 2015

Sugar On The Brain Circuit: Mice Seeking Sweets May Hold Key To Compulsive Overeating

You know the feeling: you’re tired, cranky, low or just have a serious, relentless desire for something sweet. Part of your brain cries out, “No, don’t do it, this will end badly.” But another [...]

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 Kay Tye named 2014 NYSCF – Robertson Investigator
By tmbotuser
In Press Releases
Posted October 20, 2014

Kay Tye named 2014 NYSCF – Robertson Investigator

The Picower Institute congratulates Kay Tye, a Picower principal investigator and the Whitehead Career Development Assistant Professor in the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences who is [...]

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 EmTech: Meet the Innovators Under 35 – Group 4
By tmbotuser
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Posted September 24, 2014

EmTech: Meet the Innovators Under 35 – Group 4

Identifying how the connections between regions of the brain contribute to anxiety. Kay Tye began her education as an undergraduate research assistant at MIT from 1999-2003. She continued her [...]

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By tmbotuser
In News
Posted June 30, 2014

Distinct Amygdala Projections Control Opposing Behavioral Outputs

Monday Night Neuroscience Seminars – Kay Tye, MIT – “Distinct Amygdala Projections Control Opposing Behavioral Outputs” The ability to differentiate between positive and negative environmental [...]

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 Shining Light on Madness
By tmbotuser
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Posted June 17, 2014

Shining Light on Madness

Drugs for psychiatric illnesses aren’t very effective. But new research is offering renewed hope for better medicines. Novartis’s research lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a large incubator-like [...]

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By tmbotuser
In Events
Posted April 23, 2014

Distinct Functions of Different Amygdala Projections on Emotional Valence

Kay Tye gave a talk at HealthEmotions Research Institute’s 2014 Wisconsin Symposium on emotion: “Distinct Functions of Different Amygdala Projections on Emotional [...]

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By tmbotuser
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Posted January 18, 2014

A Common Brain Pathway for Anxiety and Social Behavior

MIT neuroscientist Kay Tye finds a discrete brain circuit that controls social interaction, which is impaired in many brain disorders. Impaired social interaction is a common feature of autism, [...]

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By tmbotuser
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Posted December 1, 2012

Looking at a Bright Future: Optogenetics in your Lab

Have you heard about optogenetics yet? If not, you soon will. Optogenetics techniques are sweeping neuroscience research. Named as the Method of the Year in 2010 by Nature Methods, optogenetics [...]

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By tmbotuser
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Posted October 1, 2012

Dissecting the Neural Circuits Mediating Anxiety

Neurostimulation as a tool for Basic Science and Medicine.  Anxiety disorders are the single most common class of psychiatric diseases, afflicting up to 28% of the adult population. Although [...]

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  • Salk neuroscientist Kay Tye selected as Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator September 23, 2021
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