Dr. Hans-Rudolf Berthoud

Dr. Hans-Rudolf Berthoud is the George H. Bray Professor of Neuroscience at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  A leader in obesity research, Dr. Berthoud has been a pioneer in studying the neurobiology of nutrition.  Dr. Berthoud’s major research interests include investigating interactions between the “metabolic” and “hedonic/cognitive” brain in the control of appetite, neural mechanisms involved in the coordination of energy intake with energy expenditure, pathways and specific functions of gut-brain communication and central and peripheral autonomic nervous system pathways controlling energy expenditure.