Australian Appetitive Motivation Symposium
We've waited 3 years since our last event at UNSW in 2019, but AAMS returns November 2 2022, and will be hosted by University of Newcastle at NuSpace in Newcastle’s harbour-side city centre.
The Australian Appetitive Motivation Symposium (AAMS) aims to bring together research and clinical scientists that are interested in the general field of appetitive motivation. This event will highlight the latest research on the neuroscience of addiction, feeding, and decision-making. This year, the symposium will be centred on three major themes: addiction to alcohol and drugs of abuse, ingestive behaviours, and the neural processes underlying decision-making.
Keep your eye on this webpage and our twitter feed (@AustApet) for speaker announcements over the coming weeks!
Abstracts for poster presentations will be accepted until October 8 2022. Please download the abstract template form and send to austapetmotsymp@gmail.com
Registration is free!
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Program
Primary speaker
Prof Murat Yucel (Monash), who combines neuroscience with lifestyle and technology to drive a new generation of engaging tools and activities that enable effective monitoring and enhancement of cognitive and brain health.
Other confirmed speakers across feeding, addiction and decision neuroscience include:
Dr Alex Guerin (University of Melbourne) who manages a number of clinical trials investigating new treatments for substance use problems in young people
Dr Bianca Jupp (Monash) who studies neural mechanisms of addiction and decision making using preclinical non invasive imaging approaches
Felicia Reed (Monash), who’s research aims to dissect the circuits linking appetite and memory
Dr James Kesby (Queensland Brain Institute) who performs cross species decision neuroscience research examining striatal and dopamine contributions to schizophrenia
A/Prof Jennifer Rodger (Perron Institute) who studies the effects transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) on reward circuitry in preclinical models
Dr Kenny Ip (Garvan) who studies molecular mechanisms controlling feeding in preclinical models
Dr Kirrilly Pursey (University of Newcastle) who studies the behavioural changes involved in food addiction and eating disorders
Dr Laura Wall (University of Newcastle) who uses and develops techniques from cognitive, mathematical and computational psychology as well as health economics to improve measurement of cognition, decision making and preferences
Dr Michael Kendig(University of Technology Sydney) who studies the relationship between the foods we eat and cognitive function
A/Prof Shinsuke Suzuki (University of Melbourne) who studies the neurocomputational principles of human decision-making
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.