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- Pete Clifton: feeding, obesity, schizophrenia and cognitive flexibility
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What are the brain mechanisms that contribute to hunger and satiety? And how can our understanding of these systems contribute to the treatment of obesity?
What are the brain mechanisms that support cognitive flexibility? And how can such knowledge improve the treatment of schizophrenia?
Homepage for Pete Clifton
Collaborators: Martin Yeomans, Tamzin Ripley, Ayana Gibbs
Research student: Maxine Borton - Martin Yeomans: Understanding appetite control, food choice and food preference development
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How do cognitive, sensory and nutritional aspects of food interact to generate hunger and satiety?
How do food-related cues modulate appetitive responding in humans?
What factors best predict individual differences in appetitive responding?
How do humans acquire liking for different foods?
What factors underlie food choice?How are different sensory modalities integrated to generate the experience of flavour?
Homepage for Martin Yeomans
Collaborators: Hans Crombag
Research staff: Lucy Chambers,
Research students: Keri McCrickerd, Natalie Gould, Tom Ridley-Siegert, Una Masic, Peter Hovard, Aaron BraceSee also: Sussex Ingestive Behaviour Group
- Hans Crombag: incentive learning, addiction, appetite
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How does associative learning modulate motivated action and decision-making?
What physiological- and neuronal substrates mediate incentive learning?
How do (drug) experience-dependent changes in corticostriatal circuitries affect purposive action and decision-making, including overeating and addiction?
How can basic psychology- and neuroscience research translate to inform our debate and understanding of compulsions (addiction), free-will or self-control?
Homepage for Hans Crombag
Collaborator: Martin Yeomans, Pete Clifton
Research students: Kate Doran, David Mawer - Eisuke Koya: Neuronal ensembles, associative learning, obesity, addiction, synaptic physiology, immunohistochemistry
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Are learned associations about food and drug rewards and their administration environment mediated by neuronal ensembles in motivationally relevant areas such as the medial prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens?
Do the neurons that mediate these learned associations exhibit unique synaptic physiology? Thus, are these neurons part of a unique neuronal circuit?
Homepage for Eisuke Koya
Collaborators: Hans Crombag, Sarah King, Dai Stephens,