A psychobiological system diagram below shown the control of appetite based on a its network of interactions forming part.
It conseptualized three levels: the levels of psychological events and behavioral operations, the level of peripheral physiology and metabolic events, and the level of neurotransmitter and metabolic interactions in the brain.
- PVN: paraventricular nucleus
- NST: nucleus of the tractus solitarius
- CCK: cholesystokinin
- FFA: free fatty acids
- T – LNAA : tryptophan – large neutral amino acids
(source: http://www.smw.ch/docs/pdf/1999_05/1999-05-306.PDF)
