Achim Peters
Achim Peters ( b. 1957 in Dortmund ) is a German obesity specialist who lives and works in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck.
He developed the Selfish Brain Theory and forwards the funded since 2004, existing and by the German Research Foundation (DFG) Clinical Research Group " Selfish Brain: Brain glucose and metabolic syndrome ."
Life
Peters attended until graduation in 1976, Humboldt -Gymnasium in Dortmund. In the same year he took up the study of medicine at the Ruhr University Bochum; later he moved to the Medical University of Lübeck. In 1977 he won the national competition mathematics of the Donors ' Association for German Science. With this success, a scholarship from the Study Foundation of the German people was connected. 1983 Peters joined the study with the approval of and the promotion ( at the Institute of Anatomy, Bochum ) from.
1984 Peters joined the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Lübeck. 1986-1989 took him a postdoctoral fellowship from the DFG at the Hospital for the Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, where he conducted research on " control theory in diabetes mellitus ". In the following years, Peter specialized in internal medicine at the area of endocrinology and diabetology. He was senior physician at the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Lübeck in 1993.
He habilitated in Lübeck in 1996 and received the instructor rating ( Venia Legendi ) of Internal Medicine. For the habilitation thesis on the control theory of diabetes mellitus he received from the German Diabetes Society to Silvia- King Award. In 2000 he was an adjunct professor at the University of Lübeck. 2002 was promoted to Chief Medical Officer of the area Endocrinology and Diabetology. 2004 Peters Head of the DFG-funded Clinical Research Group " Selfish Brain: Brain glucose and metabolic syndrome". A year later, the recording was followed as a Member of the Faculty of 1000 Biology. 2006 appointment as University Professor of Internal Medicine / Endocrinology and Diabetology.
Research focus: Selfish Brain Theory and obesity
1998 Achim Peters designed the basic model of the Selfish Brain theory and formulated the axioms. In his exposition of the Selfish Brain Theory (2004) it is based on 5000 published records of the "classical " Endocrinology - Diabetology and of modern neuroscience, but argued mathematically using differential equations, systems theory. This is a novel methodological approach in obesity research and Diabetology; so far, the Selfish Brain theory a paradigm shift dar.
The Selfish Brain theory suggests that the human brain primarily covers the own, relatively high demand in the regulation of energy supply of the organism. The brain behaves in so far as " selfish ", Eng. , Selfish '.
In the cerebral hemispheres, the integrating element of the entire central nervous system, the theory situated the control circuit of a " energy -on-demand " system, with which the concentration of ATP of the neurons is maintained at a high level. This goal is achieved in healthy people by allocation ( allocation ) of energy from the body.
The Selfish Brain theory is a further development of existing theories about the organization of the energy supply of the human organism dar. blood sugar and grease control circuit are as a complex to regulate food intake construed, which is controlled by a hypothalamic nucleus area of. The " Energy on Demand " system for energy supply to the brain is regarded as one this area parent instance, which refers to the controlling bodies of the blood sugar and grease control circuit influence.
The development of obesity (severe and morbid form of obesity ) can be explained by the Selfish Brain theory as an allocation failure. Instead of to request energy from the body, power is supplied in the form of food intake. This leads to an energetic, congestion in the supply chain ', which leads from the environment through the body to the brain as the largest end user. The possible reasons for this are located in impairment of the amygdala, the hippocampus or hypothalamus - brain areas, of which the blood sugar and grease control circuit is controlled and which can properly process for various reasons, the signals of the cerebral hemispheres for the energy supply to the brain is not.
The Selfish Brain theory was supported by the DFG-funded Clinical Research Group " Selfish Brain: Brain glucose and metabolic syndrome " underpins the central points by experimental method in healthy and diseased subjects.
Awards
Publications (selection)
- Structural changes in the bone and in scaffolding cells of the bone marrow in rats after chronic treatment with Tiloron. PhD thesis, University of Kiel, 1985.
- Analytical Design and clinical application of an adaptive control system for pharmacotherapy with insulin. Habilitation thesis, University of Lübeck, 1996.
- With Ulrich Schweiger and Valerija Sipos: eating disorders. Thieme, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-13-128221-5.
- In other: The selfish brain: competition for energy resources. In: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews. Vol 28, H. 2, April 2004, pp. 143-180, doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2004.03.002, PMID 15,172,762th
- With Sebastian Young: The Selfish Brain. Why does our mind sabotaging diets and fights against his own body. Ullsteinhaus, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-550-08854-4, 330 pages.
- Myth Obesity: Why fat people live longer. What does this have to do with weight stress - surprising findings of brain research. Bertelsmann, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-570-10149-0, 272 pages.