Certificate of Achievement
Mary Templeman Hogg - O'Rourke
has completed the following course:
Brain and Behavior: Regulating Body Weight
Purdue University
This online course covered the environmental and biological factors that contribute to the regulation of body weight and our control of food intake. This topic is important for understanding the current obesity epidemic in many parts of the world. Biological factors governing food intake are well known, but environmental stimuli challenge the signals and systems in the body that work to maintain a healthy weight.
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
Kimberly Kinzig
Professor of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Discuss the meaning of homeostasis
- Describe the physiological factors that influence hunger and fullness
- Explain how environmental stimuli influence eating
- Summarise how our genes interact with the environment to influence body weight
Syllabus
The course explored how our body weight is influenced by:
- Environmental factors
- Social factors
- Learned behaviors
- Biological factors
- Central nervous system
- Hormonal influence
- Genetic influence and genetic disorders
- Gene-environment interaction
Issued on 17th January 2022
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