The future of research on appetitive behavior: 30th Anniversary of the Columbia University Seminar on Appetitive Behavior

The first 30 years of Columbiaʹs Appetitive Seminar were celebrated by speakers extrapolating from the past to the future for six areas of research on appetite. This editorial introduces reviews of three of the selected topics and briefly summarizes the other three presentations-on the sensing of glucose utilization, gastrointestinal controls of satiety and mechanisms of learning and conditioning.