Emily E. Noble

This study identifies a hippocampal-striatal circuit that regulates impulsive action in male rats, using chemogenetic and fiber photometry approaches.

This study shows that early-life food insecurity in rats leads to memory impairments in adulthood, despite normal metabolic and behavioral outcomes.

This study identifies hypothalamic MCH neurons that integrate food-related appetitive and consummatory processes through physiological and behavioral responses.

This study identifies a neural circuit involving the ventral hippocampus and lateral septum that selectively mediates appetitive spatial memory for food or water locations.

This study shows that early-life low-calorie sweetener consumption in rodents leads to long-term metabolic, behavioral, and neural impairments without weight gain.

This study shows that adolescent Western diet consumption in female rats leads to long-lasting memory and gut microbiome issues that are not fully reversed by adult dietary changes.

This study shows that early life sugar consumption alters gut microbiota and impairs hippocampal-dependent memory in rats, with specific bacterial taxa linked to these effects.

This study shows that central oxytocin reduces food-seeking behavior and VTA dopamine responses to food cues in male rats, but not postingestive reward value encoding.

This study shows that MCH signaling in the nucleus accumbens shell promotes feeding in male rats but not females, with estradiol reducing this effect in females.