Since 2012, Christoph Mühlberg is enrolled at the Med­ical School of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Leipzig. He suc­cess­ful­ly com­plet­ed his pre­clin­i­cal course at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Halle.
His research project in order to get his doc­tor­al the­sis is pro­mot­ed by the col­lab­o­ra­tive research cen­tre 1052 “Obe­si­ty Mech­a­nisms”. The doc­tor­al the­sis inves­ti­gates response inhi­bi­tion in obe­si­ty. Results of the project are expect­ed to con­tribute to a com­pre­hen­sive mod­el of cog­ni­tive con­trol over behav­iour and its obe­si­ty-relat­ed alter­ations. In order to inves­ti­gate, he uses estab­lished par­a­digms e.g. Stop Sig­nal Task and adds the eat­ing con­text. The aim is to com­pare the behav­iour­al data of the lean and obese par­tic­i­pants as well as the cor­re­la­tion of their eat­ing habit questionnaires.