Ultraprocessed foods have been linked with various poor health outcomes. In our study, we characterize acute metabolic responses to these foods and investigate how our brains might encode food value, ...

In a randomized study in 57 healthy-weight adults, researchers compared nutritionally matched ultraprocessed and non-ultraprocessed meals and found that ultraprocessed foods elicited greater insulin a...

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The board approved the following promotions, tenure, and continued appointments.

Job Description The Montague, DiFeliceantonio, and Howe Laboratories at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech are seeking a motivated and creative Postdoctoral Associate. The lab...

Job Description The DiFeliceantonio (DONNUT) Lab at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at Virginia Tech is seeking an enthusiastic Postdoctoral Associate. Led by Dr. DiFeliceantonio, the lab a...

The award from the National Institutes of Health will support Mary Elizabeth Baugh ’09, M.S. ’13, Ph.D. ’18 and her research into better understanding how changes in brain activity translate into how ...

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...

The chronic consumption of caloric dense high-fat foods is a major contributor to increased body weight, obesity, and other chronic health conditions. The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) is critical in gui...