Editorial overview: Diet, behavior and brain function: You are what you eat: Effects of the modern food environment on brain and behavior

TY - JOUR

T1 - Editorial overview

T2 - Diet, behavior and brain function: You are what you eat: Effects of the modern food environment on brain and behavior

AU - Small, Dana M.

AU - la Fleur, Susanne E.

N1 - Funding Information: Dana M Small is the deputy director of The John B Pierce Laboratory and professor of Psychiatry at Yale University School of Medicine. She received her MSc degree in Neuroscience in 1998 and her PhD in Clinical Neuropsychology in 2001 from McGill University. Professor Small is a pioneer in the neuroimaging of taste, flavor and feeding in humans. Her early work characterized the neural circuits underlying food reward, highlighting a role for dorsal striatal dopamine circuits. More recently her laboratory has described the deleterious effects of obesity and diet on these circuits. Professor Small has received several awards for her work including the Allan Epstein award for contributions to understanding ingestive behavior and The Ruth Pike Award for nutrition research. In 2014 she was appointed to the National Academy of Sciences Board on Behavioral, Cognitive and Sensory Sciences (BBCSS) where she is leading an effort to further understand the influence of diet, adiposity and metabolism on cognitive functions. Her laboratory is funded by NCI, NIDDK, NIDA and NIDCD. Funding Information: Susanne E la Fleur is Associate Professor at the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism of the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam. She received her MSc degree in Medical Biology in 1997 from Groningen University and her PhD in Neuroscience in 2001 from the University of Amsterdam. She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof MF Dallman at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr la Fleur pioneered the idea to provide animals with choice to consume fat and sugar separate from pelleted chow as a new obesogenic animal model and showed with this the importance of frequent snacking in obesity development and stress reducing properties of palatable intake. Her current interest is to understand how nutrients affect the brain and how these changes mediate the overeating and metabolic problems as observed in obesity. Dr la Fleur received several awards for her work including the Novo Nordisk award for Endocrinology and the Alan N Epstein award from the Society of the Study of Ingestive Behavior. Her work is currently funded by the Dutch Technology Foundation (STW), the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO), and the European Union.

PY - 2016/6/1

Y1 - 2016/6/1

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84967146045&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2016.05.001

DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2016.05.001

M3 - Editorial

SN - 2352-1546

VL - 9

SP - v-viii

JO - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

JF - Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

ER -