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The Columbia University Seminar on Appetitive Behavior


Scheduled Speakers for the Academic Year 2002-2003

All meetings are on Thursday evenings at 7:30 PM in the Faculty House

(Revised August 30, 2002)


September 11, 2003

Stephan Rossner, Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
"Eating Behaviours in Normal Weight and Obese Subjects."

October 9, 2003

A. J. Stunkard, University of Pennsylvania.
"The Night Eating Syndrome."

November 6, 2003

Linda Bartohsuk honorary symposium "Taste, Food Intake and Obesity." Speakers are:
G.P. Smith, Bourne Laboratory. "Sweet Taste and the Motivation to Eat."
Anthony Sclafani, Brooklyn College. "The Sixth Taste"
Valery Duffy, Univ. of Connecticut. "Associations Between Oral Sensation, Dietary Behaviors and Health Outcomes."


December 11, 2003

Herbert L. Meiselman, U.S. Army Natick Labs.
"Contextual Factors in Eating-Where You Eat is Important (Subtopic-You Canít Study Eating in the Laboratory)."

January 22, 2004

Hans-Rudolf Bertoud. (Tentative)


February 19, 2004

Emanuel Pothos. (Tentative)


March 11, 2004

Andras Hajnal, Penn State University, Hershey.
"Do Sweet Meals Alter the Mesoaccumbens Dopamine System?"

April 15, 2004

Special symposium in conjunction with NY Obesity Research Center, to be announced.


May 13, 2004

Katarina T. Borer, Ph.D. University of Michigan.
"Is There Exercise-Induced Appetite Suppression?"

June 10, 2004

Michael Lowe, Drexel University.
"Binge Eating in Bulimia Nervosa: The Role of Current Dietary Restraint Versus Past Weight Suppression."



Sponsored in part by the New York Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's\Roosevelt Hospital Center.



Harry R. Kissileff, Ph.D., Chair
Dr. Kathleen Keller, Rapporteur
Contact: APSEM@columbia.edu


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