Dana Small, PhD
Dana M Small is the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Brain and Metabolism. She holds primary appointments in Neurology and Neurosurgery and in Internal Medicine. Professor Small received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from McGill University in 2001 and subsequently established her lab at Yale University, where she was on faculty for 20 years. Her research combines neuroimaging and metabolic measurements to understand how the brain and body integrate signals from the external environment and the internal milieu to optimize behaviour and metabolism. Her laboratory also studies how dysregulation of these body-brain axes contribute to the development of obesity, diabetes, cognitive impairment and psychiatric disorders.
E. Thanarajah, A. G. DiFeliceantonio, K. Albus, B. Kuzmanovic, L. Rigoux, S. Iglesias, R. Hansen, M. Schlamann, O. A. Cornely, J.C. Bruening, M. Tittgemeyer, D. M. Small “Wester diet modulates reward processing in humans” Cell Metabolism, 2023, Apr 4;35(4):571-584
E. Montalban, R. Walle, J. Castel, A. Ansoult, R. Hassouna, E. Foppen, X. Fang, Z. Hutelin, S. Mickus, A. Petibon, J. Bertholet, F. Rogreuques-Lima, A. Cebrian-Serrano, G. Gangarossa, C. Martin, P. Trifileff, C. Bosch-Bouju, D. M. Small, S. Luquet. “The addiction-susceptibility TaqIA/Ankyrin repeat and kinase domain containing 1 kinase (ANKK1) controls reward and metabolism through dopamine receptor type 2 (DR2)-expressing neurons”, Biological Psychiatry, 2023, doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2023.02.010.
E.E. Perszyk, X. S. Davis, J. Djordjevic, M. Jones-Gotman, J. Trinh, Z. Hutelin, M. G. Veldhuizen, T. D. Wager, H. Kober, D. M. Small. “Odour-imagery ability is linked to food craving, intake and adiposity change in humans”. Nature Metabolism, 2023 5(9): 1483-1493.
J. R. Dalenberg, B. P. Patel, R. Denis, M. G. Veldhuizen, Y. Nakamura, P. C. Vinke, S. Luquet D. M. Small “Short-term consumption of sucralose with, but not without, carbohydrate impairs neural and metabolic sensitivity to sugar in humans. Cell Metabolism, 2020 31(3) 493-502.
I.E. de Araujo, M. Schatzker, D.M. Small “Rethinking Food Reward” Annual Reviews of Psychology, 2020 71: 24.1-24.6
A.G. DiFeliceantonio, G. Coppin, L. Rigoux, S. E. Thanarajah, A. Dagher, M Tittgemeyer, D. M. Small “Supra-additive effects of combining fat and carbohydrate on food reward” Cell Metabolism 2018 28 (1) 33-44.
