Primary Recipient

THE VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY

Amount

$7,426.00

Award Date

7/15/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Childhood obesity is a serious public health problem that is rapidly increasing. Using an addiction model to examine brain activation in response to food cues in childhood obesity, we predict that cue-induced brain activation differences play a critical r