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NATURE REVIEWS NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 19, Issue 5, Pages 302-316Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/nrn.2018.23
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- US National Institutes of Health [R01 DK089038]
- Klarman Family Foundation for Eating Disorders Research
- American Diabetes Association [117IBS208]
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A wide range of maternal exposures - undernutrition, obesity, diabetes, stress and infection - are associated with an increased risk of metabolic disease in offspring. Developmental influences can cause persistent structural changes in hypothalamic circuits regulating food intake in the service of energy balance. The physiological relevance of these alterations has been called into question because maternal impacts on daily caloric intake do not persist to adulthood. Recent behavioural and epidemiological studies in humans provide evidence that the relative contribution of appetitive traits related to satiety, reward and the emotional aspects of food intake regulation changes across the lifespan. This Opinion article outlines a neurodevelopmental framework to explore the possibility that crosstalk between developing circuits regulating different modalities of food intake shapes future behavioural responses to environmental challenges.
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