It makes sense that food deprivation stimulates hippocampal neurogenesis, because in the absence of food, a mammal has to go to new locations to find new food s

It makes sense that food deprivation stimulates hippocampal neurogenesis, because in the absence of food, a mammal has to go to new locations to find new food sources. That requires navigation and memory mapping, both of which are core functions of the hippocampus. https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jn.00005.2017 https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jn.00005.20...