The endocannabinoid system controls food intake via olfactory processes

…, B Lutz, M Guzmán, H Gurden, G Ferreira… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Hunger arouses sensory perception, eventually leading to an increase in food intake, but
the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. We found that cannabinoid type-1 (CB …

Juvenile, but not adult exposure to high‐fat diet impairs relational memory and hippocampal neurogenesis in mice

…, S Tronel, A Marighetto, S Layé, G Ferreira - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Increased consumption of high‐fat diet (HFD) leads to obesity and adverse neurocognitive
outcomes. Childhood and adolescence are important periods of brain maturation shaping …

[HTML][HTML] Acute exposure to a high-fat diet in juvenile male rats disrupts hippocampal-dependent memory and plasticity through glucocorticoids

T Khazen, OA Hatoum, G Ferreira, M Maroun - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
The limbic circuit is still undergoing maturation during juvenility and adolescence, explaining
why environmental and metabolic challenges during these developmental periods can …

[HTML][HTML] Switching adolescent high-fat diet to adult control diet restores neurocognitive alterations

…, G Pacheco-Lopez, E Coutureau, G Ferreira - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
In addition to metabolic and cardiovascular disorders, obesity is associated with adverse
cognitive and emotional outcomes. Its growing prevalence in adolescents is particularly …

Impairment of hippocampal-dependent memory induced by juvenile high-fat diet intake is associated with enhanced hippocampal inflammation in rats

…, A Aubert, N Castanon, S Layé, G Ferreira - Brain, behavior, and …, 2014 - Elsevier
In addition to metabolic and cardiovascular disorders, obesity pandemic is associated with
chronic low-grade inflammation as well as adverse cognitive outcomes. However, the …

Juvenile obesity enhances emotional memory and amygdala plasticity through glucocorticoids

…, E Coutureau, RM Vouimba, G Ferreira - Journal of …, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
In addition to metabolic and cardiovascular disorders, obesity is associated with adverse
cognitive and emotional outcomes. Its growing prevalence during adolescence is particularly …

[HTML][HTML] Cognitive and emotional alterations are related to hippocampal inflammation in a mouse model of metabolic syndrome

AL Dinel, C Andre, A Aubert, G Ferreira, S Laye… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Converging clinical data suggest that peripheral inflammation is likely involved in the
pathogenesis of the neuropsychiatric symptoms associated with metabolic syndrome (MetS). …

Diet-induced obesity progressively alters cognition, anxiety-like behavior and lipopolysaccharide-induced depressive-like behavior: focus on brain indoleamine 2, 3 …

C Andre, AL Dinel, G Ferreira, S Laye… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Obesity is associated with a high prevalence of mood symptoms and cognitive dysfunctions
that emerges as significant risk factors for important health complications such as …

Role of cholinergic system on the construction of memories: taste memory encoding

MI Miranda, G Ferreira, L Ramı́rez-Lugo… - Neurobiology of learning …, 2003 - Elsevier
There is a large body of evidence suggesting that cholinergic activity is involved in memory
processes. It seems that cholinergic activity is essential to learn several tasks and recent …

[HTML][HTML] Adult-born neurons immature during learning are necessary for remote memory reconsolidation in rats

…, V Charrier, F Massa, D Cota, G Ferreira… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Memory reconsolidation, the process by which memories are again stabilized after being
reactivated, has strengthened the idea that memory stabilization is a highly plastic process. To …