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Edited by Gerard P. Smith. 291 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 1998. $65. ISBN 0-19-510515-X.

In the early 1980s when I first tried to understand the neurochemistry of appetite control, I made a pilgrimage to New York to meet the Merlin of the field, whose wizardry had inspired my scientific desires. This person was Gerard Smith, the editor of this book and the director of the Edward W. Bourne Behavioral Research Laboratory at Cornell University. Satiation: From Gut to Brain takes us on an elegant journey along the historical pathway that led the Bourne Laboratory to develop our modern insights into how the gastrointestinal tract communicates a sense of fullness (satiation) to the brain.

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