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Overview

Timothy H. Moran is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on the regulation of appetite and obesity, as well as eating disorders and related behaviors. They have contributed to multiple fields, including medicine and neuroscience, with particular emphasis on endocrine and autonomic systems, physiology, clinical psychology, surgery, and nutrition and dietetics.

Their scholarly output includes significant work on diet and metabolism studies, biochemical analysis and sensing techniques, bariatric surgery and outcomes, neuropeptides and animal physiology, and cystic fibrosis research advances. Their work has appeared frequently in journals such as Physiology & Behavior, SSRN Electronic Journal, Appetite, Nutrients, and the International Journal of Eating Disorders.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Timothy H. Moran are:

  • Taste-related reward is associated with weight loss following bariatric surgery (2020), Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Vagal gut-brain signaling mediates amygdaloid plasticity, affect, and pain in a functional dyspepsia model (2021), JCI Insight
  • NIH Workshop Report: sensory nutrition and disease (2020), American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
  • Gastrointestinal peptides in eating-related disorders (2021), Physiology & Behavior
  • Adolescent female rats prone to the activity based anorexia (ABA) paradigm have altered hedonic responses and cortical astrocyte density compared to resistant animals (2021), Appetite

Frequent collaborators with whom Moran has published include Kellie L. Tamashiro, Susan Carnell, Kimberly Smith, Afroditi Papantoni, and Kimberley E. Steele. These collaborators have worked across various projects with timelines reflecting sustained scientific interaction.

Their scholarly contributions have been disseminated mostly through the following publication venues:

  • Physiology & Behavior
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Appetite
  • Nutrients
  • International Journal of Eating Disorders

Timothy H. Moran's main research fields include:

  • Medicine
  • Neuroscience

Within these fields, their subfields of study are:

  • Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
  • Physiology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Surgery
  • Nutrition and Dietetics

The primary topics Moran has worked on involve:

  • Regulation of Appetite and Obesity
  • Eating Disorders and Behaviors
  • Diet and Metabolism Studies
  • Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques
  • Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes
  • Neuropeptides and Animal Physiology
  • Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances

Best Publications

  • Neurobiology of exercise.

    Rod K. Dishman;Hans Rudolf Berthoud;Frank W. Booth;Carl W. Cotman

  • A mouse model for Down syndrome exhibits learning and behaviour deficits

    Roger H. Reeves;Nicholas G. Irving;Timothy H. Moran;Anny Wohn

  • Two brain cholecystokinin receptors: implications for behavioral actions.

    Timothy H. Moran;Paul H. Robinson;Michael S. Goldrich;Paul R. McHugh

  • Excessive sugar intake alters binding to dopamine and mu-opioid receptors in the brain

    C. Colantuoni;J. Schwenker;J. McCarthy;P. Rada

  • p53 mediates cellular dysfunction and behavioral abnormalities in Huntington's disease.

    Byoung Il Bae;Hong Xu;Shuichi Igarashi;Masahiro Fujimuro

  • Cholecystokinin suppresses food intake by inhibiting gastric emptying

    T. H. Moran;P. R. McHugh

  • Gastrointestinal satiety signals II. Cholecystokinin.

    Timothy H. Moran;Kimberly P. Kinzig

  • Inducible expression of mutant human DISC1 in mice is associated with brain and behavioral abnormalities reminiscent of schizophrenia.

    M V Pletnikov;Y Ayhan;O Nikolskaia;Y Xu

  • Inositol Pyrophosphates Inhibit Akt Signaling, Thereby Regulating Insulin Sensitivity and Weight Gain

    Anutosh Chakraborty;Michael A. Koldobskiy;Nicholas T. Bello;Micah Maxwell

  • Neuroprotective role of Sirt1 in mammalian models of Huntington's disease through activation of multiple Sirt1 targets

    Mali Jiang;Jiawei Wang;Jiawei Wang;Jinrong Fu;Lin Du

  • Satiety after preloads with different amounts of fat and carbohydrate: implications for obesity.

    B J Rolls;S Kim-Harris;M W Fischman;R W Foltin

  • C75, a fatty acid synthase inhibitor, reduces food intake via hypothalamic AMP-activated protein kinase.

    Eun Kyoung Kim;Ian Miller;Susan Aja;Leslie E. Landree

  • Discovery and genetic localization of Down syndrome cerebellar phenotypes using the Ts65Dn mouse

    Laura L. Baxter;Timothy H. Moran;Joan T. Richtsmeier;Juan Troncoso

  • Abnormal dopamine uptake sites in postmortem striatum from patients with Tourette's syndrome.

    Harvey S. Singer;In‐Hei ‐H Hahn;Timothy H. Moran

  • Disordered food intake and obesity in rats lacking cholecystokinin A receptors.

    Timothy H. Moran;Laura F. Katz;Carlos R. Plata-Salaman;Gary J. Schwartz

  • Calories and gastric emptying: a regulatory capacity with implications for feeding

    P. R. McHugh;T. H. Moran

  • Prenatal Stress or High Fat Diet increases Susceptibility to Diet-Induced Obesity in Rat Offspring

    Kellie L.K. Tamashiro;Chantelle E. Terrillion;Jayson Hyun;James I. Koenig

  • Cholecystokinin and satiety: current perspectives.

    Timothy H Moran

  • A Drosophila model for LRRK2-linked parkinsonism

    Zhaohui Liu;Xiaoyue Wang;Yi Yu;Xueping Li

  • Neurobiology of exercise

    R. K. Dishman;H. R. Berthoud;F. W. Booth;C. W. Cotman

Frequent Co-Authors

Aron Weller
Aron Weller Bar-Ilan University
Robert G. Robinson
Robert G. Robinson University of Iowa
Mikhail V. Pletnikov
Mikhail V. Pletnikov Johns Hopkins University
Pankaj J. Pasricha
Pankaj J. Pasricha Johns Hopkins University
Christopher A. Ross
Christopher A. Ross Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Paul R. Sanberg
Paul R. Sanberg University of South Florida
Joseph T. Coyle
Joseph T. Coyle Harvard University
Harvey S. Singer
Harvey S. Singer Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Orna Zagoory-Sharon
Orna Zagoory-Sharon Reichman University
Roger H. Reeves
Roger H. Reeves Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

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