Kate Zara Peters

This study investigates the long-term effects of adolescent exposure to an obesogenic diet on feeding behaviors in mice, finding sex-dependent changes in food intake without affecting preference for non-caloric rewards.

This study investigates how adolescent exposure to high-fat diets affects action control in mice, revealing sex-specific changes in habitual and flexible behavior.

This study investigates how environmental enrichment reduces food-seeking behavior by modulating specific cell types and circuits in the prelimbic cortex.

This study shows that environmental enrichment reduces food-seeking behavior by increasing excitatory and decreasing inhibitory activity in prelimbic cortex neurons.

This study shows that protein restriction increases VTA neural activity during protein consumption compared to carbohydrate in rats, highlighting the role of VTA circuits in protein appetite.

This study examines how distractor stimuli affect VTA neuronal activity in rats during saccharin consumption, finding that neural responses to distractors persist even after behavior habituates.

This study examines how protein restriction during adolescence or adulthood affects dopamine release in specific brain regions in rats, showing age-dependent differences in neural responses.

This study shows that protein-restricted rats develop a preference for protein-containing food and show increased palatability of protein compared to carbohydrate.