Understanding how the brain senses and encodes hunger and satiety

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1084344

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Obesity is the most important health concern in the world today. Despite all the epidemiology evidence and despite the intervention approaches, obesity and type-2 diabetes continues to rise in Australia and worldwide. Clearly, a greater biological understanding of the mechanisms driving increased calorie intake and decreased calorie expenditure. This fellowship explores the different neural circuits in the brain and how they regulate motivation for food and food consumption

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2015

End Date: 01-01-2018

Funding Scheme: Career Development Fellowships

Funding Amount: $473,477.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Central Nervous System

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

appetite regulation | neuroanatomy | neuropeptide Y (NPY) | obesity | pro-opiomelanocortin (POMC)

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