Märta Lundqvist’s Foundation has awarded the lab generous funding to study the connection between food and anxiety in anorexia nervosa, and how it is possible to break that connection to help patients eat without feeling anxious.
Umeå University awarded us funding to set up an infrastructure for translational psychiatry. Translational psychiatry is expected to herald completely novel safe and effective treatments against psychiatric disorders. To bridge the gap between patients and neuro-molecular mechanistic research, we received funding to purchase a state-of-the-art imaging system.
Batuhan Uygar did is BA in Turkey and his Master’s at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. He has already gained a lot of experience in mapping neuronal circuitry and won several Erasmus scholarships.
We are very grateful to the Fredrik och Ingrid Thurings Stiftelse for their support to our research.
We’re very pleased to announce that Region Västerbotten has offered us another grant. It will support our new PhD student.
How is it that the same food for some people can be associated with fond memories of how good it tasted while other people panic and suffer from terrible anxiety when they think of it? Our feelings and thoughts have great impact on what, when and how much we eat. All of these thoughts and …
Why do some people eat more than others? How it is that the brain, a gelatinous clump, can make us experience how good some food tastes? How can the brain associate eating with such incredible danger that some people choose to die instead of eating more? If you are interested in how the brain and …
We recently got our latest paper, O-GlcNAc cycling mediates energy balance by regulating caloric memory, accepted in Appetite. Now the proofs are in and the paper is available online, including on PubMed. Check it out: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2021.105320
We’ve just heard from Appetite that they’ve accepted our paper ‘O-GlcNAc cycling mediates energy balance by regulating caloric memory’. The paper came out of a collaboration between us and the labs of Chad Slawson and Udayan Apte at Kansas University and John Hanover at NIDDK (NIH), USA. In the paper we describe our discovery that …
We are recruiting PhD students and postdocs. Explore our website and contact us if you want to know more.
