Post-doc ‘Exploring the interplay between Diet, Microbiota and ADHD’
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| We are looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious postdoc, with a strong background in or affinity with child psychiatric and fMRI research. The candidate should be particularly interested in the effect of food on brain, bowel (including microbiota) and behaviour. The candidate will be working together with a more laboratory-oriented, -omics-driven postdoc, as part of a consortium of professionals that will explore the link between diet and ADHD. The consortium aims to unravel the impact of the gut-brain axis on ADHD, to explore the impact of diet on the brain, and to identify biomarkers that could be used to facilitate dietary interventions in children with ADHD. The successful candidate would specifically focus on the above-mentioned topics, and would define the impact of food on ADHD in children. For each subject, fMRI will be carried out and various samples will be collected and analysed in laboratories of third parties. . It is the aim to correlate individual data on -omics, fMRI and clinical outcome (ameliorating or adverse effects on ADHD). The work is interdisciplinary and consists of writing research proposals for clinical trials, submitting these proposals, obtaining medical ethical consent, being involved in carrying out the trials, and in identifying pathways, metabolites and nutrients that may be involved in ADHD. The postdoc will function as the pivot of all disciplines involved. |