Join us for Journal Club!
Aug 29– Tom Talavage PhD, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Founding Director, Purdue fMRI facility
Greg Tamer, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Biomedical Engineering and Purdue fMRI facility
fMRI methodology applicable to ingestive behavior research
Reading link: http://www.hindawi.com/journals/edr/2012/764017/
Sept 26– Leah Hibel PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept of Human Development and Family Studies
Stress and human behavior
Reading links:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306453008002643#
Kudielka BM, et al. Why do we respond so differently? Reviewing determinants of human salivary cortisol responses to challenge. Psychoneuroendocrinology 2009;34:2-18.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031938407001734
Granger DA, et al. Integration of salivary biomarkers into developmental and behaviorally-oriented research: problems and solutions for collecting specimens. Physiology & Behavior 2007;583-90.
Oct 24– Edward Fox PhD, Associate Professor, Dept of Psychological Sciences
Role of BDNF in diet-induced obesity
Reading link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306452209001018#
Yu Y et al. Energy-restricted pair-feeding normalizes low levels of brain-derived neurotrophic factor/tyrosine kinase B mRNA expression in the hippocampus, but not ventromedial hypothalamic nucleus, in diet-induced obese mice. Neuroscience 2009;295-306.
Nov 28– David Kareken MD, IU School of Medicine
fMRI assessment of appetite
Reading link: TBA
