Projects

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...

The O’Brain lab presents: Beyond the Belly

The O’Brain lab presents: Beyond the Belly

Start­ing in March, a new mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary lec­ture series will begin at Helsin­ki Uni­ver­si­ty. Pro­vid­ed by the O’Brain Lab, ‘Beyond the bel­ly – on the psy­chol­o­gy of eat­ing’ is open to stu­dents and the gen­er­al pub­lic. The aim is to give a broad per­spec­tive on eat­ing behav­ior away from patho­log­i­cal con­di­tions....

Great news for our lab!

On Mon­day, May 23rd Arsene received an offi­cial let­ter from the Finnish Nation­al Agency for Edu­ca­tion inform­ing him that he was award­ed the EDUFI schol­ar­ship to pur­sue his doc­tor­al work at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Helsin­ki. In a nut­shell, the grant is intend­ed for post­grad­u­ate stud­ies as well as research and...

We have code

In our 2016 Fron­tiers in Genet­ics paper on the fast and effi­cient mul­ti­vari­ate analy­sis of high-dimen­sion­al data we pro­vid­ed a link to share soft­ware code, sam­ple input data and com­plete doc­u­men­ta­tion. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, the web­site no longer exists but we have moved the code (and exam­ple data) to github. Hap­py analy­ses...

Fragebogen zu deutschen Lebensmitteln

Keks und Kohlroulade? Schnitzel und Schokokuss? Was sind typ­isch deutsche Lebens­mit­tel und wie gern wer­den sie gegessen? Unsere Kol­legIn­nen vom HI-MAG wollen es her­aus­find­en und haben einen Frage­bo­gen ent­wor­fen. Eure Antworten wären ein super Weihnachtsgeschenk!

Delay to replication study

Delay to replication study

Dur­ing March we had the great news that the Dutch Research Coun­cil would fund an inter­na­tion­al repli­ca­tion study. Giv­en the cur­rent Covid-19 pan­dem­ic and the dis­rup­tion expe­ri­enced all over the world, a new start date has been set. We are hop­ing to start set­ting up from 1st Jan­u­ary 2021, with...

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