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Brian Baldo is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, primarily affiliated with the UW Comprehensive Diabetes Center. His research focuses on understanding the forebrain's food-reward systems and how they usurp homeostatic controls of energy balance, potentially leading to binge eating and obesity. His laboratory employs a variety of neuropharmacological, neuroanatomical, and behavioral approaches to localize specific motivational functions within individual neural sites and circuits in rodent models. He is particularly interested in understanding how the frontal cortex regulates reward-related circuits in the striatum and hypothalamus, striving to comprehend how dysregulation in these circuits contributes to maladaptive and dysregulated eating behaviors.
Department: Department of Computer Sciences