Overview

Energy balance over the life-span varies within a narrow range in most people yet it reflects an incessant competition between countervailing energy-storing (anabolic) and (less abundant) energy-using (catabolic) processes. Concomitantly there is a conflict between autonomic/metabolic and cognitive/behavioral processes that renders labor-saving Homo sapiens physiologically maladaptive. This maladaptation is embodied in the chronic overnutrition syndrome, obesity. The Brain vs Gut: Can Appetite be Restrained? symposium held at The New York Academy of Sciences on May 2, 2011 and presented by the Diabetes and Obesity Discussion Group brought together pre-clinical and clinical scientists researching diverse aspects of energy balance, from nutrient sensing and appetite regulation to eating disorders and bariatric surgery. This resulted in a constructive discussion about current minimally invasive interventions to restore healthy energy balance.

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Presentations available from:

John G. Kral, MD, PhD (SUNY Downstate Medical Center)
Gary J. Schwartz, PhD (Albert Einstein College of Medicine)
Blandine Laferrère, MD (Columbia University — St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center)
Allen S. Levine, PhD (University of Minnesota)
Timothy H. Moran, PhD (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)
Walter J. Pories, MD (East Carolina University)
Philip R. Schauer, MD (Bariatric and Metabolic Institute, Cleveland Clinic)
Anthony Sclafani, PhD (CUNY, Brooklyn College)
Christopher C. Thompson, MD, MSc (Brigham and Women's Hospital)
B. Timothy Walsh, MD (Columbia University)
Gene-Jack Wang, MD (Brookhaven National Laboratories)

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Grant Support

This event is funded in part by the Life Technologies™ Foundation.