Alfonso Abizaid

• Health Sciences Building, Carleton University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6

Dr. Alfonso Abizaid completed his BA, MA, and PhD in Psychology at Concordia University, where he received the Governor General Medal for his PhD work and was the valedictorian for the class of 2002. He then completed an NSERC-funded postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University School of Medicine.

Eligible to supervise at the undergraduate and graduate level.

Courses Taught:

• NEUR 3402: Impact of Lifestyle and Social Interactions on Mental Health
• NEUR 3303: Hormones and Behaviour
• NEUR 6100: Graduate Seminar

Scholarly Work & Research Interests:

The Abizaid Lab is interested in the brain processes that integrate information from the environment to regulate feeding and energy balance. Their research focuses include the following:

• How metabolic hormones like ghrelin influence reward-seeking behaviours via actions on the mesolimbic reward system
• How the hormone ghrelin influences feeding as a coping mechanism to reduce the effects of chronic social stress
• How prenatal exposure to endocrine disrupters influences the brain systems implicated in the regulation of feed and energy balance

Selected Publications:

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