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A LEAP2 reduce overeating
The overconsumption of highly palatable food is the primary determining factor in today’s global obesity crisis. An important role for the brain...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
A neural metabolic memory of diet restriction influences rebound weight gain
A major hurdle in the battle against obesity is not only the ability to promote weight loss but the inability to maintain a lower body weight...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
How does hunger and food reward control learning
Learning is essential to successfully adapt to changing environments. The process of learning uses experience to guide current and future behaviour...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
How does hunger influence sense of smell? Implications for food reward.
Hunger can tune our sense of smell to help find food, identify foods high in calories and affect memories associated with food. Currently, we do not...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
Hunger flexibly modifies hypothalamic neural circuits responding to threat
Animal and human behaviour frequently involves a choice between actions or goals with conflicting positive and negative outcomes (e.g. rewards and...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
Smelling yourself thin – Olfaction to treat obesity
Obesity and overweight are major health concerns and a burden to public health in Australia, affecting 2 in 3 adults (12.5 million), and 1 in 4...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
The role of GPR75 in body weight control and behaviour
Recently, novel genetic variants of GPR75 were discovered to be associated with leanness in large genome wide associated studies. This is the first...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
The Scent of Appetite: Unlocking the Power of Olfaction on Eating Behaviours.
Dysfunctional feeding behaviour encompasses energy overconsumption (obesity, binge eating) to malnutrition (unhealthy food choices, excessive dieting...
Supervisor: Professor Zane Andrews
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