Margaret Morris Department of Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences UNSW Sydney Biography Publications Institution JoVE Articles Margaret MorrisProfessor Margaret Morris is Professor and Head of Pharmacology at UNSW Sydney. She has a PhD in Medicine (Monash) and postdoctoral training in neuroscience. Morris leads the Environmental determinants of obesity research group within the School of Medical Sciences.Her research focuses on the intergenerational transmission of obesity through both maternal and paternal lines and the psychology of eating, e.g. how does provision of a varied, energy rich diet override the regulatory control mechanisms that should maintain body weight? Her lab uses rodent models to investigate the impact of a palatable, western diet, and the contributions of sugar and fat, on cognitive deficits and the relationship with changes in composition of the gut microbiota. https://research.unsw.edu.au/people/professor-margaret morris/publications?type=journalarticles Publications Pattern of Access to Cafeteria-style Diet Determines Fat Mass and Degree of Spatial Memory Impairments in Rats Scientific Reports. Sep, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31534169 Behavioural Effects of High Fat Diet in Adult Nrg1 Type III Transgenic Mice Behavioural Brain Research. Sep, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31499092 Polymer Brush Based Fluorescent Immunosensor for Direct Monitoring of Interleukin-1β in Rat Blood The Analyst. Oct, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31418433 Behavioural Effects of High Fat Diet Exposure Starting in Late Adolescence in Neuregulin 1 Transmembrane Domain Mutant Mice Behavioural Brain Research. Nov, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31284014 Fizzing Out: No Effect of Acute Carbohydrate Consumption on Mood Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 09, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 31265871 Reviewing the Effects of Dietary Salt on Cognition: Mechanisms and Future Directions Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Month, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30896408 Long-term Behavioural Effects of Maternal Obesity in C57BL/6J Mice Physiology & Behavior. 02, 2019 | Pubmed ID: 30414884 Impacts of Diet and Exercise on Maternal Gut Microbiota Are Transferred to Offspring Frontiers in Endocrinology. Month, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 30559716 Hyperpalatability and the Generation of Obesity: Roles of Environment, Stress Exposure and Individual Difference Current Obesity Reports. Mar, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29435959 Gene Therapy Mediated Seizure Suppression in Genetic Generalised Epilepsy: Neuropeptide Y Overexpression in a Rat Model Neurobiology of Disease. 05, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 29414380 The Role of Reward Circuitry and Food Addiction in the Obesity Epidemic: An Update Biological Psychology. 01, 2018 | Pubmed ID: 28011401 Nicotinamide Mononucleotide (NMN) Supplementation Ameliorates the Impact of Maternal Obesity in Mice: Comparison with Exercise Scientific Reports. 11, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 29118320 The Mechanisms Mediating the Antiepileptic Effects of the Ketogenic Diet, and Potential Opportunities for Improvement with Metabolism-altering Drugs Seizure. Nov, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28941398 Hypoxic Postconditioning Improves Behavioural Deficits at 6 Weeks Following Hypoxic-ischemic Brain Injury in Neonatal Rats Behavioural Brain Research. 08, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28647597 More Flavor for Flavonoid-Based Interventions? Trends in Molecular Medicine. 04, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 28318994 Effects of Paternal Obesity on Growth and Adiposity of Male Rat Offspring American Journal of Physiology. Endocrinology and Metabolism. 02, 2017 | Pubmed ID: 27965204 Paternal High Fat Diet in Rats Leads to Renal Accumulation of Lipid and Tubular Changes in Adult Offspring Nutrients. Aug, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27563922 The Effect of Short-term Exposure to Energy-matched Diets Enriched in Fat or Sugar on Memory, Gut Microbiota and Markers of Brain Inflammation and Plasticity Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. Oct, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27448745 Daily Access to Sucrose Impairs Aspects of Spatial Memory Tasks Reliant on Pattern Separation and Neural Proliferation in Rats Learning & Memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.). 07, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 27317199 A Diet High in Fat and Sugar Reverses Anxiety-like Behaviour Induced by Limited Nesting in Male Rats: Impacts on Hippocampal Markers Psychoneuroendocrinology. 06, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26999723 Short-term Exposure to a Diet High in Fat and Sugar, or Liquid Sugar, Selectively Impairs Hippocampal-dependent Memory, with Differential Impacts on Inflammation Behavioural Brain Research. 06, 2016 | Pubmed ID: 26970578 The Effect of Early-life Stress and Chronic High-sucrose Diet on Metabolic Outcomes in Female Rats Stress (Amsterdam, Netherlands). Month, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26365331 Diet-Induced Cognitive Deficits: The Role of Fat and Sugar, Potential Mechanisms and Nutritional Interventions Nutrients. Aug, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26274972 Maternal Obesity Regulates Gene Expression in the Hearts of Offspring Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Diseases : NMCD. Sep, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 26224356 Why is Obesity Such a Problem in the 21st Century? The Intersection of Palatable Food, Cues and Reward Pathways, Stress, and Cognition Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. Nov, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25496905 Effects of Long-term Cycling Between Palatable Cafeteria Diet and Regular Chow on Intake, Eating Patterns, and Response to Saccharin and Sucrose Physiology & Behavior. Feb, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25446218 Dietary-induced Obesity Disrupts Trace Fear Conditioning and Decreases Hippocampal Reelin Expression Brain, Behavior, and Immunity. Jan, 2015 | Pubmed ID: 25043993 Extended Exposure to a Palatable Cafeteria Diet Alters Gene Expression in Brain Regions Implicated in Reward, and Withdrawal from This Diet Alters Gene Expression in Brain Regions Associated with Stress Behavioural Brain Research. May, 2014 | Pubmed ID: 24583192 Palatable Western-style Cafeteria Diet as a Reliable Method for Modeling Diet-induced Obesity in Rodents Sarah-Jane Leigh*1, Michael D. Kendig*1, Margaret J. Morris1 1Department of Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW Sydney JoVE 60262 Medicine
Palatable Western-style Cafeteria Diet as a Reliable Method for Modeling Diet-induced Obesity in Rodents Sarah-Jane Leigh*1, Michael D. Kendig*1, Margaret J. Morris1 1Department of Pharmacology, School of Medical Sciences, UNSW Sydney JoVE 60262 Medicine
