“Control of Ingestion by the Caudal Brainstem”

Zachary Knight, PhD
Professor of Physiology
University of California, San Francisco
Investigator
Howard Hughes Medical Institute

The progress of a meal is controlled by sensory feedback generated during eating. I will describe our work investigating how these signals are integrated in the caudal brainstem and used to control behavior. A central theme is how sensory feedback from the mouth and gut interact, both during ingestion and over longer timescales through learning, to influence the amount that we eat.