STAT+: The new weight loss drugs are revolutionizing our understanding of desire. Food cravings could be just the beginning
Wegovy and similar drugs weren't originally designed to get into the brain. But scientists are learning that’s where they work to cause weight loss.
One month it was pizza. Starting in the late afternoon, while he was teaching a chem lab or grading student work, a part of Anthony Fernandez’s brain would stray to visions of steaming pies. The thought of sinking his teeth into one would tug at him as he packed up his things and walked to his car. By the time he pulled out of the Merrimack College campus, the urge would become a tractor beam,
