The Alhadeff Lab is broadly interested in how the gut and the brain influence motivated behavior. Our research employs a combination of modern neuroscience tools and surgical approaches to understand how external stimuli, such as food and drugs, influence in vivo neural activity, and how this brain activity drives behavior.


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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
— Virginia Woolfe, A Room of One's Own