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