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Ghrelin – a hormone at the interface between eating and reward| title | Ghrelin – a hormone at the interface between eating and reward |
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| start_date | 2023/04/04 |
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| schedule | 14h-15h30 |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | salle des colloques, bât. F |
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| summary | Suzanne L Dickson is a neurobiologist and Professor of Neuroendocrinology at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden). She is also President of the European Brain Council, advocating for research in the brain space, and Secretary of the European College for Neuropsychopharmacology, a society dedicated to applied neuroscience. She graduated with a Ph.D. in Neuroendocrinology from the University of Cambridge in 1993, where she later became Senior Lecturer in Physiology. She is a leading figure in neuroendocrinology and works within many European and international organizations and societies to promote research, facilitate grant funding and training of Early Career Scientists. Her research into the neurobiology of appetite aims to unravel neurobiological pathways that respond to orexigenic signals, such as the hormone, ghrelin, and that drive feeding behaviours, not only food intake but also food choice, food anticipation, food reward and food motivation. This work involves mostly preclinical studies and includes behavioural tasks, neural circuit (viral vector) mapping, chemogenetics and RNAscope.
Her talk will cover topics related to hunger and reward processing. How can ghrelin help us to find populations of neurones whose function is to control behaviours linked to hunger and appetite? How does ghrelin impact on motivation for food, food reward and behaviours of relevance for eating disorders? How may studying the circuits through which ghrelin acts give advance knowledge in this disease area? |
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| responsibles | Fournier |
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| submitted | published | | 2023/03/23 13:40 UTC |
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