Our guest PhD student Rossella successfully finished her PhD in early 2019. Congratulations Rossella! How nice that we could contribute a small part to it.
Author Archives: obesity_2014
O’BRAIN @ NIH
Annette will travel to the US next week to present as an invited speaker at a prestigious workshop on Real-Time fMRI Neurofeedback at National Institute of Mental Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MD (USA). Check out the line up and agenda here.
We are hiring
We have an open position for a post-doc in our new lab in Helsinki; if you are looking for an exciting project investigating the link between cognition, brain function, and nutrition in humans, then check out our call here. The deadline is 21. April, with reviews starting immediately. Prospective start...
Professor Horstmann
We are proud to announce that Annette Horstmann has been made Associate Professor for Behavioural and Brain Sciences at the University of Helsinki. From 1st January 2019 Annette now also runs a lab in the slightly more Northern parts of Europe, whilst maintaining the sister group in Leipzig. Congratulations Annette!
We are looking for you
If you are looking for a Master Thesis, check out our open position in the field of olfaction. Applications will be received until November, 15th 2018.
New O’BRAIN Team Members
We are happy to welcome 2 new team members: Franziska Rausch & Nora Breuer. They are both medical students who will pursue their MD theses work with us. Welcome to the team!
Too much is not enough
We are proud to announce that Annette Horstmann has published an article (in German) in the magazine Spektrum der Wissenschaft, explaining how the brains of people with obesity are different to the brains of people with normal weight — and how that may explain why some people find it hard...
Annette Horstmann awarded with the DAG research prize
A recent trip to Frankfurt for the 32nd Annual Conference of the German Obesity Society (DAG: Deutsche Adipositas Gesellschaft) was a great success for the O’Brain Project: Annette Horstmann was awarded with the DAG research prize 2016, honouring her recent work on the neurobiology of obesity. Congratulations! The team was...
Does it work this way? Annette’s model tried and tested
Annette’s proposed model of how dopaminergic tone varies (non-linearly) across normal weight, overweight and obese people has been tested empirically for the first time. Researchers in Spain conducted an fMRI experiment with which they confirm Annette’s idea with real data: the reward system in the brain appears to function differently but systematically across people...
Article in Focus Online
The German weekly news magazine “Focus” noticed the work of one of our PhD students, Nora Mehl. Annette Horstmann explains the finer details of the research in an interview here.