Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Patient’s nutrition is generally considered to be the main cause of the accumulation of excess body weight. However, this accumulation can be mitigated by treatment involving drugs with a central mechanism of action. By using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) we can meliorate our understanding of the organization of neuronal networks responsible for eating behavior, and see how they respond to the mechanisms of action of sibutramine in the treatm...