Workaday nerve cells use molecules called glutamic acid and gamma aminobutyric acid.

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By holding the rice at a low temperature for an extended period of time before cooking it the level of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) increases.

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When Orphan Medical, which was later bought by Jazz, filed its new drug application with the FDA, the street drug gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) was in the news as a date-rape potion and drug of abuse.

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It seems to stimulate overeating by speeding up production of a chemical messenger in the brain called GABA, or gamma-amino butyric acid.

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