Address all correspondence to Dr. George A. Bray. Received for publication 14 February 1983 and in revised form 19 May 1983. INTRODUCTION Following the observation by Hetherington and Ranson (1) that ventromedial hypothalamic lesions were associated with obesity, Anand and Brobeck (2) demonstrated in 1951 that lesions placed more laterally in the hypothalamus were associated with hypophagia or ...

GROSSMAN, S. P. AND J. W. HENNESSY. Differential effects of cuts through the posterior hypothalamus on ebod intake and body weight in male and female rats. PHYSIOL. BEHAV. 17(1) 89-102, 1976. Large knife cuts in the coronal plane through the posterior hypothalamus which transected the caudal connections of the medial hypothalamus without producing significant direct damage to cellular component...