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Researchers pinpoint the circuit that new drugs use to suppress hedonic eating

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Researchers pinpointed for the first time the central amygdala circuit that next-generation GLP-1 drugs inhibit to suppress hedonic eating, reducing dopamine release to isolate reward without abolishing it.

Reporting date: 2026-05-12 (not necessarily the event date)

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Researchers pinpoint the circuit that new drugs use to suppress hedonic eating
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Reporting date: 2026-05-12
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Claim: Researchers pinpointed for the first time the central amygdala circuit that next-generation GLP-1 drugs inhibit to suppress hedonic eating, reducing dopamine release to isolate reward without abolishing it.
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