Expertise

Research interests:

  • Regulation of food intake and body weight including effects of diet on neuropeptides and neurotransmitters that play a role in the development of obesity, and examining how diet interacts with the ability of leptin to regulate energy balance.

Subject Area:

  • Basic Research
  • Diabetes.
Communities
Food Science and Technology, Hospitality and Tourism, Nutrition and Dietetic Services, Nutrition
Degrees
PhD, Louisiana State University, Physiology, 1988
MS, Auburn University, Physiology, 1984
BS, Auburn University, Chemistry, 1980
Keywords
nutrition or dietetics obesity eating disorders peptides neuroscience
Associations
Society for Neuroscience