Chairs

Michael J. Kelley, PhD, RD, Wm Wrigley Jr Co, Village Of Lakewood, IL
Naiman A. Khan, PhD, RD, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL

Presentations

• Neurocognition:  The food-brain connection. James O. Hill, PhD, Univ. of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO
• Current perspectives, controversies and misunderstandings of terminology, methodology, and applications.  Kent Berridge, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
• Obesity and the brain: Is evidence sufficient that human food addiction exists?  Nicole Avena, PhD, Columbia University, New York Obesity Research Center, New York, NY
• Obesity and the brain:  How convincing is the addiction model?  Hisham Ziauddeen, PhD, University of Cambridge, UK
• The benefits and limitations of current neuroimaging methods in the study of food reward and control of food intake.  Miguel Alonso-Alonso, PhD, Harvard University, Boston, MA
• Answering the essential questions:   The agenda going forward.  David Allison, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL
• Moderated Discussion.  James O. Hill, PhD, University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO