Contact: Dr. Barbara Meyer
bmeyer@mpipsykl.mpg.de
49-893-062-2616
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Caption: Just seeing it creates an appetite: Such images generate the feeling of hunger due to the hormone ghrelin, which is released in greater amounts through visual stimuli.
Credit: Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
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