PSYC3388 Neurobiology of Eating and Eating Disorders
PSYC5585 Advanced Brain Systems: Motivation and Emotion
Research Interests
Neurobiology of motivation and feeding behavior; functional organization of the brain systems mediating environmental control of food intake, specifically interactions between the amygdala, prefrontal cortex, and hypothalamus; modulation of hunger and satiety mechanisms by learning and stress.
Petrovich GD (2018). Lateral hypothalamus as a motivation-cognition interface in the control of feeding behavior. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience 12: 14.
Reppucci CJ and Petrovich GD (2018). Neural substrates of fear-induced hypophagia in male and female rats. Brain Structure and Function 223:292-2947.
Anderson LC and Petrovich GD (2018) Ventromedial prefrontal cortex mediates sex differences in persistent cognitive drive for food. Scientiific Reports 8:2230.
Keefer SE and Petrovich GD (2017). Distinct recruitment of basolateral amygdala-medial prefrontal cortex pathways across Pavlovian appetitive conditioning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 141:27-32.
Reppucci CJ and Petrovich GD (2016). Organization of connections between the amygdala, medial prefrontal cortex, and lateral hypothalamus: a single and double retrograde tracing study in rats. Brain Structure and Function 221, 2937–2962.
Cole S, Mayer HS, and Petrovich GD (2015). Orexin/hypocretin-1 receptor antagonism selectively reduces cue-induced feeding in sated rats and recruits medial prefrontal cortex and thalamus. Scientific Reports 5:16143.
Cole S, Hobin MP and Petrovich GD (2015). Appetitive associative learning recruits a distinct network with cortical, striatal, and hypothalamic regions. Neuroscience 286:187-202.
