CZ:(U00984) Appetite and Obesity, University of Edinburgh 2010

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The course coordinates

Instructor: Prof Gareth Leng, Dr Nancy Sabatier

About the Appetite and Obesity course

‘Appetite and Obesity’ is an elective course that is part of the Honours Medical Biology programme in the School of Biomedical Sciences at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

The course mechanics

Eduzendium courses need a number of help pages in order to function properly within the Citizendium. This course homepage and all its standard subpages have been set up with the standard names in their standard location: A template article to prefill the students's pages with course-specific formatting and content, a template for the metadata of your course's article, and a note informing other Citizens whether they are allowed to edit your course's pages or not. Please modify these pages as you see fit. If you are done, you can delete the whole section The course mechanics from your course homepage.

Project Description

The project is to write an article on a chosen topic related to obesity research, working in groups of max 4. At the end of the course, articles will be released on Citizendium; until then, articles will be locked from editing by other users.

Project schedule and deadlines

28.09.10: Tutorial 1.

12.10.10: Reference list updated. Your article should present a bibliography with an extract of the abstract for each reference illustrating why the paper has been chosen. For an example of how your reference list should look like:Recovered memory/Bibliography

26.10.10: Rough draft due. Your article should have an introduction and at least a detailed plan with section subheadings. You should also have decided what picture(s) or diagram(s) you want to include.

02.11.10: Peer reviews due. Leave your comments on each course article Talk page.

17.11.09: Final draft due. Your main article should be finalised, picture and diagram included. For an example how your article could look like: Edinburgh. Bibliography, Related articles and External links pages should be updated. For an example of how your article subpages should look like: Biology/Related Articles and Biology/External Links

23.11.10: Tutorial 2: Feedback session, peer reviews due.

Week 11: Articles released on Citizendium.

Article topics

Please select the topic you want to work on by signing your name (using 4 tildes) on the article talkpage.

  • Genetics of Obesity [r]: Add brief definition or description
    To create this article in course-specific format, please open this page in a separate window — it will guide you through the process. After each step that takes you away from this course homepage, check back here and reload the page. If you are ready to start this process, then


:Task: Cover the evidence for a genetic component to obesity in humans. Cover the work of Steve O'Rahilly's team in particular.


  • Stub Stress and appetite [r]: The interactions between the hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis and the regulation of food intake. [e]
    :Task: Discuss the interactions between the HPA axis and the control of appetite; include a section on "Comfort eating". See the work of Mary Dallman in particular.


  • Developing Article Energy balance in pregnancy and lactation [r]: Adaptations in the control of food intake and energy expenditure in different reproductive states. [e]
    :Task: Discuss the changing energy requirements in different physiological states and how they are regulated


  • Developing Article Evolution of appetite regulating systems [r]: Comparisons of the mechanisms regulating food intake and energy expenditure between species. [e]
    :Task: See how appetite is regulated in non-mammalian animals and compare with its regulation in mammals



  • Developing Article Circadian rhythms and appetite [r]: Daily variations in the regulation of food intake. [e]
    :Task: many animals tend to eat at particular times of day - how is this regulated?


  • Developing Article Glucostatic theory of appetite control [r]: The theory that changes in blood glucose concentrations or arteriovenous glucose differences are detected by glucoreceptors that affect energy intake. [e]
    :Task: How important is the blood glucose concentration in regulating appetite?


  • Seasonal rhythms in energy balance [r]: Variations of the body's energy intake and consumption over the course of a year. [e]
    Your article has been created. To create the metadata for this article in course-specific format, please


:Task: Some animals (like Sibersian hamsters show remarkable seasonal variations in adipositca. How are these changes regulated, and can we learn anything that might lead to new treatments in humans?

Once the articles have been created, they will be listed here in the following formatting:

Help and 'How to'

For tips on how to write and edit an article: See CZ:How to edit an article and CZ:Article_Mechanics.

For more info on how to create and organize subpages: See CZ:Subpages.

How to insert a picture or diagram: See CZ: About Media Hosted at Citizendium. You must have copyright permission to upload any picture or diagram! To insert a picture: See CZ: Upload

How to make a table: See Help for Tables

Notes on Eduzendium

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