Dr Robyn Brown

Senior Research Fellow, Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, University of Melbourne

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Health & Medicine

Why women are more likely to ‘stress eat’

New research has discovered a brain pathway that drives stress-related eating, helping to explain what drives emotional overeating in women

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