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The brain’s role in human obesity

  • A. Horstmann

    Studied biology at the Ruhr-University Bochum. After a 1-year stay at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Group “Attention & Awareness”, Prof John-Dylan Haynes) and completing her PhD in the International Graduate School of Biosciences in Bochum, she worked in the Department of Neurology of the same institute from 2008 to 2010. From 2010 to 2013 she worked as a research scientist in a cooperation project between the MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and the IFB AdiposityDiseases, University Clinic Leipzig. Since 2013 Dr Horstmann is head of the independent Junior Research Group “Decision-making in obesity: neurobiology, behaviour & plasticity” within the framework of the IFB and in cooperation with the MPI. Her research focus is on the neurobiology of human obesity.

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    und A. Villringer

    Studied medi­cine in Freiburg. After a 1-year stay at Harvard Univer­sity he worked as an assistant doctor at the Univer­sity of Munich from 1986 until 1993. From 1996 un­til 2003 he worked as a senior physician and vice chair­man at the Department of Neurology of the Charité University Medicine Berlin, from 2004 until 2007 head at the Campus Benjamin Franklin of the Charité Uni­versity Medicine Berlin. Since 2007 he is director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and head of Clinic of Cognitive Neurology at the University Hospital Leipzig. Prof Villringer manag­es since 1999 the German-wide Competence Network Stroke and founded in 2006 the Berlin School of Mind and Brain. His research focus is “stroke” and risk fac­tors thereof.

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Published Online: 2017-2-25
Published in Print: 2013-12-1

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