León, Gto., October 11, 2017.-  With the firm purpose to reveal the contribution of the research on neuroscience of the obesity, scholars from the University of Guanajuato (UG) joined efforts to create the 2017 edition of the National Symposium of Mental Health.

The event's organizer was Dr. Martha Silvia Solís Ortiz, professor-researcher of the Department of Medical Sciences of Campus Leon, who in an interview commented that obesity has several factors in which the brain is involved, because this, answers to stimuli making addicted to fats or sugars.

She indicated that the correct nourishment form is based "on following the normal proportions, if a person has overweight problems or obesity and cannot control excess eating (...), that person can teach the brain to have inhibiting acts."

She highlighted that the key for a healthy nourishment are proportions and highlighted the importance of a balanced diet to be accompanied by health professionals and specially, self-control.

Likewise, in the conference titles "implications of obesity", Dr. Solis talked about the brain's reward systems, which addresses the importance of why you cannot stop eating when the body needs it no more. "This research line on obesity and brain is recent, obesity is being treated as an inflammatory process," she commented.

In addition, she presented her most recent research poster called "Executive functions, correlated with the BMI of middle aged women", made with students of master and doctorate degrees in Medical Sciences. In it, they presented a study of 70 women with menopause in an average age of 53 years, from León, in which they detected that with greater mass, the greater the cognitive deficiency is.

During the study, they made several trials of the brain functions by proving the influence of obesity in their diminishment.

A participation that must be acknowledged is that of Dr. Cuauhtémoc Sandoval Salazar, researcher of Campus Celaya-Salvatierra who gave a conference where he addressed the effect of a fatty diet on the gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA), in the prefrontal cortex of a mouse.

On the other hand, Dr. Vicente Beltrán Campos, also from Campus Celaya-Salvatierra, shared in a talk, the hormonal participation in the obesity.

During the opening act, they had the presence of M. Juan Carlos Mora Hernández, General Coordinator of the Academic Development of Campus León, responsible of inaugurating the works of the symposium.

More than 300 students of Psychology, Nutrition and Medicine, as well as professionals attended the event.

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