University of Massachusetts Amherst

Symposium of the Center for Neuroendocrine Studies: Food Intake: A Balancing Act

The ninth annual Symposium of the Center for Neuroendocrine Studies. This symposium is a series of lectures focusing on neuroendocrinology. It is aimed at undergraduates, graduate students, and professors.

Slated Speakers:

Linking Neuroanatomy with Function: The Genetic Approach

Bradford B. Lowell, Harvard University

The Metabolic Syndrome, a Brain Disease

Ruud M. Buijs, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience

and University of Veracruzana, Jalapa, Mexico

Blood Glucose: A View from the Hypothalamus

Alan Watts, University of Southern California

Cause of Feeding Disorders

Per Södersten, Karolinska Institute

Treatment of Feeding Disorders

Cecilia Bergh, Karolinska Institute

Center for Neuroendocrine Studies