Launch of the IFB Junior Research Group

We’re hap­py to announce the launch of the IFB Junior Research Group “Deci­sion-mak­ing in Obe­si­ty: Neu­ro­bi­ol­o­gy, Behav­ior, and Plas­tic­i­ty” head­ed by Dr Annette Horstmann. The sci­en­tists in this field of “neu­ro­bi­ol­o­gy and deci­sion-mak­ing in obe­si­ty” try to find out how unfa­vor­able eat­ing habits in over­weight peo­ple are devel­op­ing, and how...

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Anja Dietrich featured at Radio Eins

Ger­man broad­cast­er Radio Eins fea­tured Anja’s work in a radio report/interview.

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CRC Launch

Launch of the CRC 1052 (Col­lab­o­ra­tive Research Cen­tre) “Obe­si­ty Mech­a­nisms” with the Project A5 “Neu­rocog­ni­tive Mod­els of Behav­ioral Con­trol in Obe­si­ty” head­ed by Dr Annette Horstmann and Dr Jane Neumann

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Is adiposity responsible for the loss of brain cells?” (IFB Blog)

Tak­en from IFB Blog: http://www.ifb-leipzig.com/en/blog/2012–09-27-adiposity-responsible-loss-brain-cells Is adiposity responsible for the loss of brain cells? A new study shows that adi­pos­i­ty appar­ent­ly increas­es the risk for demen­tia. The con­nec­tion between the two dis­eases is more com­plex that pre­vi­ous­ly assumed. In Ger­many cur­rent­ly more than one mil­lion peo­ple suf­fer from the loss of their...

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