{"id":13417,"date":"2017-06-21T11:30:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T15:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/?p=13417"},"modified":"2017-06-21T11:30:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-21T15:30:56","slug":"dr-pietro-cottone-speaks-at-the-royal-societys-of-mice-and-mental-health-facilitating-dialogue-between-basic-and-clinical-neuroscientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/2017\/06\/21\/dr-pietro-cottone-speaks-at-the-royal-societys-of-mice-and-mental-health-facilitating-dialogue-between-basic-and-clinical-neuroscientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Pietro Cottone Speaks at The Royal Society’s “Of Mice and Mental Health: Facilitating Dialogue Between Basic and Clinical Neuroscientists”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pietro Cottone, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Psychiatry<\/a>, made a presentation on the “Neurobiology of Compulsive Eating” at The Royal Society’s “Of Mice and Mental Health: Facilitating Dialogue Between Basic and Clinical Neuroscientists<\/a>”\u00a0in London on\u00a0April 24-25, 2017. Based upon his current research, Dr. Cottone and his research group in the Laboratory of Addictive Disorders<\/a> tested the hypothesis that “one of the underlying mechanisms of compulsive eating involves the\u00a0negative reinforcing properties palatable food . . .” \u00a0According to their studies,\u00a0rats who were deprived of regular access to highly palatable food demonstrated “spontaneous emotional signs of palatable food withdrawal, including anxiety- and depressive-like behavior,” \u00a0that was “accompanied by increased corticotropin-releasing factor expression (CRF),” and that “administration of a selective CRF1 receptor antagonist . . . was able to block both the overeating . . . and negative emotional state.” These results are important in ultimately\u00a0discovering novel therapeutics to combat compulsive eating. \u00a0The manuscript with details of this research\u00a0will be published in The Royal Society’s journal, “Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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Pietro Cottone, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Psychiatry, made a presentation on the “Neurobiology of Compulsive Eating” at The Royal Society’s “Of Mice and Mental Health: Facilitating Dialogue Between Basic and Clinical Neuroscientists”\u00a0in London on\u00a0April 24-25, 2017. Based upon his current research, Dr. Cottone and his research group in the Laboratory of Addictive Disorders […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1327,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1783],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1327"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13420,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13417\/revisions\/13420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/ppb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}