Dr. Nicole Avena, PhD
Dr. Nicole Avena is an Associate Professor of Neuroscience at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, and a Visiting Professor of Psychology at Princeton University. She is a graduate of Princeton University, and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at The Rockefeller University. Dr. Avena is a health psychologist and an expert in the fields of nutrition, diet, and addiction, with a special focus on nutrition during the lifespan. She has done groundbreaking work in developing models to characterize food addiction and the dangers of excessive sugar intake. Her research achievements have been honored by awards from several groups, including the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Psychological Association, and the National Institute on Drug Abuse. In addition to over 100 peer-reviewed scholarly publications, Dr. Avena has written several popular books, including Why Diets Fail: Because You’re Addicted to Sugar, What to Eat When You’re Pregnant, What to Feed Your Baby and Toddler and What to Eat When You Want to Get Pregnant. Her latest book, Sugarless, covers the latest science on sugar addiction and how to overcome it. She frequently appears as a science expert in the media, including regular appearances on Good Day NY, Good Morning America, and the former Dr. Oz Show and The Doctors as well as many national and regional news programs. She was recently featured as an expert in the Netflix documentary You Are What You Eat: A Twin Experiment and she is a go-to expert in the media for all things related to nutrition, health and wellness. Her work has been featured in Time Magazine, Bloomberg Business Week, The New York Times, and many other periodicals. Dr. Avena is a member of the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau. She has the #2 most watched TED-ED Health talk, How Sugar Affects Your Brain, with over 17 million views and counting.
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