Robyn M Brown

Binge eating, overeating and food addiction: Approaches for examining food overconsumption in laboratory rodents.

Robyn M Brown, Morgan H James

Journal article  |  2023  |  Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry

Overeating ranges in severity from casual overindulgence to an overwhelming drive to consume certain foods. At its most extreme, o..

Addiction-like behaviour towards high-fat high-sugar food predicts relapse propensity in both obesity prone and obesity resistant C57BL/6 J mice.

Anna L Horton, Erin J Campbell, Timothy D Aumann, Katrina R O'Brien, Andrew J Lawrence, Robyn M Brown

Journal article  |  2023  |  Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry

Compulsive overeating of palatable food is thought to underlie some forms of obesity. Similarities are often observed in the behav..

A Comparison of Emotional Triggers for Eating in Men and Women with Obesity

Eva Guerrero-Hreins, Lauren Stammers, Lisa Wong, Robyn M Brown, Priya Sumithran

Journal article  |  2022  |  NUTRIENTS

OBJECTIVE: Emotional eating (EE) is prevalent in people seeking obesity treatment and is a contributor to poor weight loss outcome..

Compulsive-like eating of high-fat high-sugar food is associated with 'addiction-like' glutamatergic dysfunction in obesity prone rats

Diana Sketriene, Damien Battista, Laddawan Lalert, Natcharee Kraiwattanapirom, Ngoc Thai Han, Tanawan Leeboonngam, Lori A Knackstedt, Jess Nithianantharajah, Priya Sumithran, Andrew J Lawrence, Robyn M Brown

Journal article  |  2022  |  ADDICTION BIOLOGY

Chronic overeating is a core feature of diet-induced obesity. There is increasing evidence that in vulnerable individuals, such ov..

Advancing translational neuroscience research for eating disorders

Claire J Foldi, Morgan H James, Robyn M Brown, Milan K Piya, Trevor Steward

Journal article  |  2022  |  AUSTRALIAN AND NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY

Metabolic sensing in AgRP neurons integrates homeostatic star e with dopamine signalling in the striatum

Alex Reichenbach, Rachel E Clarke, Romana Stark, Sarah Haas Lockie, Mathieu Mequinion, Harry Dempsey, Sasha Rawlinson, Felicia Reed, Tara Sepehrizadeh, Michael DeVeer, Astrid C Munder, Juan Nunez-Iglesias, David C Spanswick, Randall Mynatt, Alexxai Kravitz, Christopher Dayas, Robyn Brown, Zane B Andrews

Journal article  |  2022  |  ELIFE

Agouti-related peptide (AgRP) neurons increase motivation for food, however, whether metabolic sensing of homeostatic state in AgR..

Self-Administration

Heather B Madsen, Robyn M Brown

Book Chapter  |  2022

Satiation

Roberta G Anversa, Robyn M Brown

Book Chapter  |  2022

New directions in modelling dysregulated reward seeking for food and drugs.

Robyn M Brown, Christopher V Dayas, Morgan H James, Rachel J Smith

Journal article  |  2022  |  Neurosci Biobehav Rev

Behavioral models are central to behavioral neuroscience. To study the neural mechanisms of maladaptive behaviors (including binge..

Gut-brain mechanisms underlying changes in disordered eating behaviour after bariatric surgery: a review

Eva Guerrero-Hreins, Claire J Foldi, Brian J Oldfield, Aneta Stefanidis, Priya Sumithran, Robyn M Brown

Journal article  |  2021  |  REVIEWS IN ENDOCRINE & METABOLIC DISORDERS

Bariatric surgery results in long-term weight loss and an improved metabolic phenotype due to changes in the gut-brain axis regula..