Dr. Rob Contreras
Michigan State University, 1975
James C. Smith Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience
Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
Roles of early dietary experience, taste, hormones, and the brain in control of appetite, energy balance, and blood pressure regulation; plasticity, hypertension, and obesity.
Selected Publications
Mast TG, Breza JM & Contreras, RJ. Thirst increases chorda tympani responses to sodium chloride. Chem. Senses, 42: 675-681, 2017; doi:10.1093/chemse/bjx.
Lu B, Breza, JM & Contreras RJ. Temperature influences chorda tympani nerve responses to sweet, salty, sour, umami, and bitter stimuli in mice. Chem. Senses, 41: 727-736, 2016; doi:10.1093/chemse/bjw082.
Kinsey, AW, Cappadona SR, Paton LB, Allman BR, Contreras RJ, Hickner RC, & Ormsbee MJ. The effect of casein protein prior to sleep on fat metabolism in obese men. Nutrients 2016, 8, 452; doi:10.3390/nu8080452.
Ormsbee MJ, Gorman KA, Miller EA, Baur DA, Eckel LA, Contreras, RJ, Panton LB & Spicer MT. Nighttime feeding likely alters morning metabolism but not exercise performance in female athletes. Appl. Physiol. Nutr. Metab. 41: 1-9, 2016; doi.org/10.1139/apnm-2015-0526.
Khamoui AV, Park B-S, Kim D-H, Yeh M-C, Oh S-L, Elam ML, Jo E, Arjmandi BH, Salazar G, Grant SC, Contreras RJ, Lee WJ, & Kim J-S. Aerobic and resistance training dependent skeletal muscle plasticity in the colon-26 murine model of cancer cachexia. Metabol. Clin. Exp., 65: 685-698, 2016; doi: 10.1016/j.metabol.2016.01.014.
Zourdos, MC, Jo, E, Khamoui, AV, Lee, S-R, Park, B-S, Ormsbee, MJ, Panton, LB, Contreras, RJ, & Kim, J-S. Modified daily undulating periodization model produces greater performance than a traditional configuration in powerlifters. J. Strength Conditioning Res., 30: 784-791, 2016; doi: 10.1519/JSC.0000000000001165.
Mojock CD, Ormsbee MJ, Kim J-S, Arjmandi BH, Louw GA, Contreras RJ, & Panton, LB. Comparisons of bone mineral density between recreational and trained male road cyclists. Clin. J. Sport. Med., 26: 152-156, 2016; doi: 10.1097/JSM.0000000000000186.
Wesolowski S, Contreras RJ, Wu W. A new framework for Euclidean summary statistics in neural spike train space. Ann. Appl. Stat., 9(3): 1278-1297, 2015; doi:10.1214/15-AOAS847.