it Became known that night, the human brain is worse controls feelings of hunger and satiation

the American neuroscientists discovered the cause of periodic nocturnal overeating, according to which the human brain in the evening, worse controls feelings of hunger and satiety. The study is published in the journal Brain Imaging and Behavior.

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Team Travis Masterson, a neurophysiologist at the University of Brigham young, for some time watched the volunteers who every day for some time considered various shots of food.

In the course of this experience, the researchers tracked brain activity of the test subjects, trying to understand how people change feelings of hunger and satiety, as well as looks like the visual perception of food at different intervals of time.

According to the results of the experiment, neuroscientists have come to the conclusion that the brain responds to food is much stronger than in the morning or evening. Therefore night "raids" on the fridge are a blunt reaction to food where people have to eat more food in order to feel the saturation and go back to sleep.

"We often overeat at night due to the fact that the food becomes less palatable, or at least she looks less appetizing at this time of day. It seems that we get less satisfaction from night feedings, because of what we have to eat more to feel satisfied", " said Travis Masterson. the

Now neuroscientist is going to figure out how people can deal with this feature of the brain, in addition to the development of willpower.

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