Relationships Among the Brain, the Digestive System, and Eating Behavior Workshop Summary (2015) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix C: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Appendix C: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 115-122
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Recognition for his research includes awards from the American Oil Chemists Society, the Agriculture and Food Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society, the International Life Science Institute, the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the Institute of Food Technologists.
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Her research investigates the cognitions, affects, and behavioral economic processes underlying consumption and lifestyle behavior and brings complexity sciences to bear in examining how such knowledge can inspire more effective communication, successful health-sensitive innovation, and ecosystem transformation for convergence between health and economics.
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Kergoat held a position as lecturer in human sciences at the University Paris Descartes and at the University of Basse-Normandie and collaborated with a team of researchers at C.N.R.S. (National French Scientific Center)
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In 2007, Dr. Margolskee published two papers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America shedding light on how the gut "tastes" nutrients, a new area of research with important implications for diabetes and obesity. Most recently his group identified the previously elusive adult taste stem cells.
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Mattes is director of the Ingestive Behavior Research Center and director of the Public Health Program. He also holds numerous external responsibilities, including serving as associate editor of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition and serving on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Nutrition, Chemosensory Perception, the Ear, Nose, and Throat Journal, and the journal Flavour.
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His research focuses on nutrition and behavior, and a large part of this work is concerned with how physiological, learned, and cognitive controls on appetite are integrated. The results are relevant to identifying the causes of obesity and disordered eating and to understanding food choice, food craving, and food "addiction." Dr. Rogers also works on dietary effects on mood and cognition; this work includes research on how food consumption affects alertness and attention, as well as studies of longer-term influences of diet on psychological health.
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Dr. Rolls is a neuroscientist with research interests in computational neuroscience, including the operation of real neuronal networks in the brain involved in vision, memory, attention, and decision making; functional neuroimaging of vision, taste, olfaction, feeding, control of appetite, memory, and emotion; neurological disorders of emotion; psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia; and the brain processes underlying consciousness.
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Dr. Ziauddeen's research focuses on the role of the brain reward system in normal and abnormal eating behavior, using neuro ehavioral, functional neuroimaging, and experimental medicine ap b proaches. His current work is looking at the mechanisms of antipsychoticinduced weight gain in patients who are prescribed these medications.
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