Dr. Mitchell A. Head
Postdoctoral Fellow
Qualifications: BSc, MSc(Research), PhD
Iwi: Tainui, Ngati Mahuta, Ngati Naho
About Mitchell
Te Kotahi Research Institute, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Maori
Research Interests
Neuroscience
Consciousness
Rongoa Maori
Recent Publications:
| Acute Hypophagia and Changes in c-Fos Immunoreactivity in Adolescent Rats Treated with Low Doses of Oxytocin and Naltrexone MA Head, LK McColl, A Klockars, AS Levine, PK Olszewski Journal of Clinical Medicine 11 (1), 59 | 2022 | |
| Effect of combination of peripheral oxytocin and naltrexone at subthreshold doses on food intake, body weight and feeding-related brain gene expression in male rats MA Head, AS Levine, DG Christian, A Klockars, PK Olszewski Physiology & Behavior | 2021 | |
| Impact of Gut and Metabolic Hormones on Feeding Reward A Klockars, AS Levine, MA Head, CE Perez-Leighton, CM Kotz, PK Olszewski Comprehensive Physiology 11 (2), 1425-1447 | 2021 |
| Effects of opioid receptor ligands in rats trained to discriminate 22 from 2 hours of food deprivation suggest a lack of opioid involvement in eating for hunger DC Jewett, A Klockars, TR Smith, C Brunton, MA Head, RL Tham, AJ Kwilasz, TW Hahn, JM Wiebelhaus, EE Ewan, RM Carroll, MK Grace, AS Levine, PK Olszewski Behavioural brain research 380, 112369 | 2020 |
| Effect of oxytocin on hunger discrimination MA Head, DC Jewett, SN Gartner, A Klockars, AS Levine, PK Olszewski Frontiers in Endocrinology 1016 | 2019 |
Recent Publications
Head, M. A., McColl, L. K., Klockars, A., Levine, A. S., & Olszewski, P. K. (2022). Acute hypophagia and changes in c‐Fos immunoreactivity in adolescent rats treated with low doses of oxytocin and naltrexone. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 11(1). doi:10.3390/jcm11010059
Klockars, A., Levine, A. S., Head, M. A., Perez-Leighton, C. E., Kotz, C. M., & Olszewski, P. K. (2021). Impact of gut and metabolic hormones on feeding reward. Comprehensive Physiology, 11(2), 1425-1447. doi:10.1002/cphy.c190042
Head, M. A., Levine, A. S., Christian, D. G., Klockars, A., & Olszewski, P. K. (2021). Effect of combination of peripheral oxytocin and naltrexone at subthreshold doses on food intake, body weight and feeding-related brain gene expression in male rats. Physiology & Behavior, 113464. doi:10.1016/j.physbeh.2021.113464
Head, M. A., Klockars, A., Olszewski, P. K., Voss, L. J., Sleigh, J. W., & Harvey, M. G. (2020). Analgesic effects of Ketamine versus its novel analogue, SN35210: Insights from tail-flick responses and brain activation in rats. In The Science of Consciousness Conference [Online]. Hosted by The University of Arizona.
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Keywords
Animal Behaviour; Anxiety; Biochemistry; Biology; Biotechnology; Depression; Engineering; Genetics; Health; Imaging; Maori Health; Maori Research; Microbiology; Molecular Biology; Science; Statistics
Neuroscience; Psychopharmacology