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Exploring Obesity: From the Depths of the Brain to the Far Pacific

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Person Speaking from a podium. Caption: and why it doesn't act so well in the obese.

Dr. Jeffrey Friedman shows how leptin rewires neural circuits, and how population studies may identify obesity genes. Part of the 2004 Howard Hughes Holiday Lecture Series

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Runtime: 58 minutes 30 seconds

Person about to look into the eye pieces of a microscope. Caption: how hormones control the genome,
Holiday Lectures On Science
Season 2004 / Ep 1
58 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Person Speaking from a podium. Caption: and why it doesn't act so well in the obese.
Holiday Lectures On Science
Season 2004 / Ep 2
58 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Illustration of a cell with activity inside. Caption: It changes the function of the cell
Holiday Lectures On Science
Season 2004 / Ep 3
58 minutes 28 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12
Person in gloves and a lab coat handles two mice. One is noticeably heavy. Caption: because a single gene is defective,
Holiday Lectures On Science
Season 2004 / Ep 4
58 minutes 30 seconds
Grade Level: 11 - 12