Code
3E015815
Duration
01 October 2015 → 30 September 2021
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Medical and health sciences
- Public health sciences not elsewhere classified
- Metabolic diseases
Keywords
gut microbiota
overweight
probiotics
emotional regulation
cortisol
tryptophane
children
psychosocial stress
endocrinology
low-grade inflammation
nutrition
Project description
This project will elucidate mechanistic pathways in the bidirectional stress-obesity relation in childhood community and clinical samples: (a) longitudinal pathways in existing cohorts; (b) contrasting groups on depression and overweight to unravel individual risk factors; and (c) two interventions to substantiate new treatments i.e. probiotics in depression and emotion-regulation training in obesity.