Primary Recipient

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SYSTEM

Amount

$29,929.00

Award Date

6/22/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

We hypothesize that deletion of GABAergic funciton of accumbens shell neurons will lead to constant disinhibition of target areas including the lateral hypothalamus, resultingin hyperphagia on palatable food and development of obesity.