Author: Amy Reichelt

We love sweet treats. But too much sugar in our diets can lead to weight gain and obesity, Type 2 diabetes and dental decay. We know we shouldn’t be eating candy, ice cream, cookies, cakes and drinking sugary sodas, but sometimes they are so hard to resist. It’s as if our brain is hardwired to want these foods. As… Continue reading Your brain on sugar: What the science actually says

Obesity is increasing worldwide, especially among children and teenagers. More than 150 million children in the world are obese in 2019. These children have increased risk of heart disease, cancers and Type 2 diabetes. Teenagers with obesity are likely to remain obese as adults. If these trends continue, 70 per cent of adults aged 40 years could be either overweight or obese… Continue reading How junk food shapes the developing teenage brain

I published this piece with Dr Sarah McKay's The Neuroscience Academy program, go check it out for amazing continuing education, and please take a look at her personal site at yourbrainhealth.com.au.  Ketogenic (keto) diets have become increasingly popular for achieving rapid weight loss by eating a high fat, very low carbohydrate diet. On a “normal”… Continue reading Ketogenic diets on the brain

I've got many changes happening at the moment, which is very time consuming and mentally draining. The most notable is that I moved to Canada at the start of April, so most of March was spent wrapping up things (physically and metaphorically) in Australia! I've just joined Western University as part of the new BrainsCAN… Continue reading Update March 2018

This month we got a new paper published in Physiology and Behavior! Impact of high sucrose diets on the discrimination of spatial and object memories with overlapping features We examined how rats fed a high sugar diet were able to remember objects and places when they were perceptually similar. We found that both object and… Continue reading Research update February 2018