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Suzanne L. Dickson

Suzanne L. Dickson

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Neuroscience

D-Index
68
Citations
20711
World Ranking
2724
National Ranking
53

Overview

Suzanne L. Dickson is affiliated with the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Their primary research fields encompass Neuroscience and Medicine, with specific emphasis on Endocrine and Autonomic Systems, Nutrition and Dietetics, Physiology, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience.

Their research topics include:

  • Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
  • Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
  • Sleep and Wakefulness Research
  • Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Adipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases

The scientist has co-authored frequently with the following researchers:

  • Erik Schéle
  • Iris Stoltenborg
  • Roger A.H. Adan
  • Fiona Peris-Sampedro
  • Marie V. Le May

Research output appears in several prominent publication venues where they have multiple contributions:

  • Neuroscience Applied
  • Journal of Neuroendocrinology
  • European Neuropsychopharmacology
  • Neuroscience
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Recent papers by Suzanne L. Dickson demonstrate a focus on neurocircuitry related to feeding behaviors, metabolic regulation, and brain health:

  • Identification of Novel Neurocircuitry Through Which Leptin Targets Multiple Inputs to the Dopamine System to Reduce Food Reward Seeking, 2021, Biological Psychiatry
  • Zona incerta neurons projecting to the ventral tegmental area promote action initiation towards feeding, 2020, The Journal of Physiology
  • National plans and awareness campaigns as priorities for achieving global brain health, 2024, The Lancet Global Health
  • Genetic deletion of the ghrelin receptor (GHSR) impairs growth and blunts endocrine response to fasting in Ghsr-IRES-Cre mice, 2021, Molecular Metabolism
  • Toward a consensus nomenclature for ghrelin, its non-acylated form, liver expressed antimicrobial peptide 2 and growth hormone secretagogue receptor, 2022, Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Best Publications

  • GH-deficient dw/dw rats and lit/lit mice show increased Fos expression in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus following systemic injection of GH-releasing peptide-6.

    S L Dickson;O Doutrelant-Viltart;G Leng

  • Interleukin-6-deficient mice develop mature-onset obesity.

    Ville Wallenius;Kristina Wallenius;Bo Ahrén;Mats Rudling

  • Growth Hormone (GH)-Independent Stimulation of Adiposity by GH Secretagogues

    Sabrina Lall;Loraine Y.C Tung;Claes Ohlsson;John-Olov Jansson

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  • “Eating addiction”, rather than “food addiction”, better captures addictive-like eating behavior

    Johannes Hebebrand;Özgür Albayrak;Roger Adan;Jochen Antel

  • Ghrelin administration into tegmental areas stimulates locomotor activity and increases extracellular concentration of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens.

    Elisabet Jerlhag;Emil Egecioglu;Suzanne L. Dickson;Annika Douhan

  • Maternal stress alters endocrine function of the feto-placental unit in rats

    Jerome Mairesse;Jean Lesage;Christophe Breton;Bernadette Breant

  • Ghrelin stimulates locomotor activity and accumbal dopamine-overflow via central cholinergic systems in mice: implications for its involvement in brain reward.

    Elisabet Jerlhag;Emil Egecioglu;Suzanne L. Dickson;Malin Andersson

  • Requirement of central ghrelin signaling for alcohol reward

    Elisabet Jerlhag;Emil Egecioglu;Sara Landgren;Nicolas Salomé

  • Systemic administration of ghrelin induces Fos and Egr-1 proteins in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus of fasted and fed rats.

    A. K. Hewson;S. L. Dickson

  • Mice lacking pro-opiomelanocortin are sensitive to high-fat feeding but respond normally to the acute anorectic effects of peptide-YY(3-36).

    B. G. Challis;A. P. Coll;G. S. H. Yeo;S. B. Pinnock

  • Ghrelin Increases Intake of Rewarding Food in Rodents

    Emil Egecioglu;Elisabet Jerlhag;Nicolas Salomé;Karolina P. Skibicka

  • The Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 (GLP-1) Analogue, Exendin-4, Decreases the Rewarding Value of Food: A New Role for Mesolimbic GLP-1 Receptors

    Suzanne L. Dickson;Rozita H. Shirazi;Caroline Hansson;Filip Bergquist

  • Nutritional psychiatry: Towards improving mental health by what you eat

    Roger A.H. Adan;Roger A.H. Adan;Eline M. van der Beek;Jan K. Buitelaar;John F. Cryan

  • Induction of c-fos messenger ribonucleic acid in neuropeptide Y and growth hormone (GH)-releasing factor neurons in the rat arcuate nucleus following systemic injection of the GH secretagogue, GH-releasing peptide-6

    Suzanne L. Dickson;Simon M. Luckman

  • The determinants of food choice

    Gareth Leng;Roger A H Adan;Michele Belot;Jeffrey M Brunstrom

  • Ghrelin directly targets the ventral tegmental area to increase food motivation.

    K.P. Skibicka;C. Hansson;M. Alvarez-Crespo;P.A. Friberg

  • Intracerebroventricular interleukin-6 treatment decreases body fat in rats.

    Kristina Wallenius;Ville Wallenius;David Sunter;Suzanne L Dickson

  • Acute effects of PYY3–36 on food intake and hypothalamic neuropeptide expression in the mouse

    B.G Challis;S.B Pinnock;A.P Coll;R.N Carter

  • The role of the central ghrelin system in reward from food and chemical drugs

    Suzanne L. Dickson;Emil Egecioglu;Sara Landgren;Karolina P. Skibicka

  • Role of ghrelin in food reward: impact of ghrelin on sucrose self-administration and mesolimbic dopamine and acetylcholine receptor gene expression

    Karolina P. Skibicka;Caroline Hansson;Emil Egecioglu;Suzanne L. Dickson

Frequent Co-Authors

Roger A.H. Adan
Roger A.H. Adan Utrecht University
Gareth Leng
Gareth Leng University of Edinburgh
Zsolt Liposits
Zsolt Liposits Institute of Experimental Medicine
Elias Eriksson
Elias Eriksson University of Gothenburg
Elinor Ben-Menachem
Elinor Ben-Menachem University of Gothenburg
Hans Nissbrandt
Hans Nissbrandt University of Gothenburg
Lennart Svensson
Lennart Svensson Karolinska Institute
Jeffrey M. Brunstrom
Jeffrey M. Brunstrom University of Bristol
Juleen R. Zierath
Juleen R. Zierath Karolinska Institute
Anke Hinney
Anke Hinney University of Duisburg-Essen

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