Marvin is doing a presentation to a group of peers on the appetite center of the brain and healthy eating
a. Discuss normal eating patterns versus abnormal eating patterns.
b. How is the appetite center of the brain involved?
c. What influences eating patterns?
d. What chemicals are involved?
Students' answers should include the following:
a. What a normal eating pattern is; eating as a response to hunger feelings until satiety or a feeling of fullness
Increased serotonin levels decrease eating where the brain feels it has eaten; thus, starvation in an indirect way is due to the effect of the feeling of satiety.
Eating disorders are considered outside the range of the normal response.
b. Appetite center in the hypothalamus
Neurotransmitters, neurohormones, and chemicals affect eating patterns and may be genetically altered.
c. Disorders are related to anxiety, guilt, medical complications, imbalances, or eating outside the normal range.
Thought to all be from cultural, social, and psychologic as well as physiologic factors
d. Dopamine and serotonin are the chemicals involved with the appetite center of the brain.
Dopamine affects pleasure, thinking, and reward, thus may affect eating and pleasure of food.
Anorexic clients may experience deregulation of dopamine and serotonin.
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