Your Brain on Food: Food Reward and Obesity

February 23, 2006, Henry Art Gallery Auditorium, University of Washington

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Learning Objectives

Your Brain on Food: Food Reward and Obesity was held on Thursday February 23, 2006. The event was well attended by University researchers, public health practioners, community members, clinicians, and students. If you could not attend, or if you missed any presentations you can review them below.

PDF of Presentations

• Allen Levine, Sugars: hedonic aspects, neuroregulation, and energy balance
• Kenneth Carr, Food restriction: enhancing effects on drug reward and striatal cell signaling
• Dianne Figlewicz Lattemann, Food reward and modulation by nutritional status, insulin, and leptin
• Gene-Jack Wang, Human brain imaging: parallels between feeding and drug taking and implications for obesity
• Sue Coldwell, Developmental and physiological influences on taste preference and perception in human adolescents
• Elissa Epel, Stress-induced eating in contemporary society: neuroendocrine responses, mood, and taste preferences
• David Kessler, What tobacco has taught us about strategies for obesity prevention