Selected contributions
A selection of collaborative work showing how questions about early development and eating grew into investigations of environmental responsiveness and shared pathways to illness. These papers document coauthorship; they do not assign individual responsibilities within each study.
2004–2012
Food preferences have a developmental history
Experiments on early handling in rats and observations of fetal growth in humans examined lasting differences in eating. The 2012 review brought human and animal evidence together in a behavioral extension of the thrifty phenotype hypothesis.
2014–2021
Dopamine and responsiveness to surroundings
Studies of dopamine-related genetic variation asked how food intake, food-cue responses and stress relate to the environments people encounter. Observational findings suggest that the same setting can be associated with different responses across individuals.
2024–2026
Considering mental and metabolic health together
Work on early adversity and the coexistence of psychiatric and cardiometabolic conditions connects developmental history with genetic variation. Complementary rat experiments investigate insulin signaling in the brain as a possible biological link.
The thrifty behavior hypothesis
The dedicated theory page follows the intellectual lineage, distinguishes coauthored work from later work by other researchers, and includes mixed findings.