Title:
427th Brookhaven Lecture
Speaker:
Gene-Jack Wang
Subject:
pathological overeating, brain circuits disrupted
Area:
Psychology
Type of school:
School name:
Brookhaven
Country:
Albania
Course language:
Arabic
Course media:
Video
Course duration:
47 min
Contributor:
jakob sandvad
Comments:
427th Brookhaven Lecture
by Gene-Jack Wang | September 26, 2007 | ~47 min.
The increasing number of obese individuals in the U.S. and other countries world-wide adds urgency to the need to understand the mechanisms underlying pathological overeating. Research by the speaker and others at Brookhaven National Laboratory and elsewhere is compiling evidence that the brain circuits disrupted in obesity are similar to those involved in drug addiction. Using positron emission tomography (PET), the speaker and his colleagues have implicated brain dopamine in the normal and the pathological intake of food by humans.