Projects

Grant Renewed for 2025–2026 !!!

We are hap­py to share that a doc­tor­al researcher in our lab has received a con­tin­u­a­tion grant to sup­port their work from Novem­ber 2025 to Novem­ber 2026. Build­ing on pre­vi­ous suc­cess­es, this fund­ing will allow the inves­ti­ga­tion of how uncon­scious sig­nals to the brain’s reward sys­tem affect food choic­es in...

Welcome our newest Doctoral researcher, Sherwin!

We are excit­ed to announce that Sher­win Nedaei Janbe­saraei has joined the OBRAIN lab as a doc­tor­al researcher. Sher­win’s research will focus on lever­ag­ing insights from eat­ing dis­or­ders to explore neur­al net­works and uncov­er bio­mark­ers that could save lives or alle­vi­ate the bur­den for at-risk individuals. Sher­win has defend­ed his...

Welcoming Our New Member, Elif!

We are delight­ed to announce that Elif Gülak has joined the OBRAIN lab as an Eras­mus intern. Elif is a 4th-year under­grad­u­ate stu­dent at Üskü­dar Uni­ver­si­ty, Fac­ul­ty of Human­i­ties and Social Sci­ences, Psy­chol­o­gy Depart­ment. Elif joins Arsene to assist with the MARVEL Project. Elif holds a Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence in...

Media Coverage of Our Research on Ultra-Processed Foods

We are thrilled to announce that our recent study, “Ultra-processed food con­sump­tion affects struc­tur­al integri­ty of feed­ing-relat­ed brain regions inde­pen­dent of and via adi­pos­i­ty,” pub­lished on April 8th in npj Metab­o­lism Health and Dis­ease, has received exten­sive media cov­er­age across mul­ti­ple inter­na­tion­al outlets. The study explores the impact of ultra-processed...

Welcoming Our New Member, Anna !

We are thrilled to announce that Anna Krasiko­va has joined the OBRAIN lab as a mas­ter’s the­sis stu­dent. Anna will be work­ing under the super­vi­sion of Manon on the LUMINA Project, uti­liz­ing data that will be col­lect­ed in the fol­low­ing months to devel­op her the­sis. We eager­ly antic­i­pate the insights...

More Grant news !!!

We are delight­ed to announce that Arsene Kanyamib­wa has been award­ed a pres­ti­gious grant from the Jen­ny and Antti Wihuri Foun­da­tion for the year 2024 (Start­ing Novem­ber 15th for 12 months). This grant is part of our ongo­ing com­mit­ment to sup­port­ing research, art, and soci­etal activ­i­ties, with over €15 mil­lion...

Grant news!!!

We are thrilled to announce that our Doc­tor­al Researcher, Manon Chédev­ille, has been award­ed a pres­ti­gious three-year iCAN­DOC grant to con­duct ground­break­ing research on the LUMINA project (Long-term Under­stand­ing of Mech­a­nisms Involved in Neu­rocog­ni­tive Alter­ations fol­low­ing breast can­cer). This project aims to deep­en our under­stand­ing of the neu­rocog­ni­tive changes expe­ri­enced...

Highlights from the Recent Psychology Congress in Helsinki

We are pleased to share that our lab par­tic­i­pat­ed in the Psy­chol­o­gy Con­gress (Psykolo­gia Kon­gres­si 2024), held from August 14 to 16, 2024, mark­ing the even­t’s return after a long hia­tus. The con­gress pro­vid­ed a won­der­ful oppor­tu­ni­ty to con­nect with new col­leagues, reunite with famil­iar faces, and explore the lat­est...

A database of food items for studying eating behavior

We are hap­py to announce that we have added a link to the Finn­Food­Pics data­base on our web­site. The work of Arsene Kanyamib­wa, Finn­Food­Pics is an image data­base of food items for the study of eat­ing behav­iors in res­i­dents of Fin­land. Made for researchers inter­est­ed in local dietary habits, any­one...

The Beyond the Belly-lecture series has concluded

After 7 lec­tures of amaz­ing talks, the Beyond The Bel­ly lec­ture series is com­ing to an end for the year. We have heard about diverse top­ics rang­ing from culi­nary cos­mopoli­tanism to health enhanc­ing food poli­cies to the role of vagal affer­ent sig­nals in the con­trol of behav­ior and many, many...