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Stipendiat Behavioral and Translational Neuroscience john.c.oyem@uit.no You can find me here

John Oyem

Job description

Job description

John is a doctoral researcher in the In the Snoeren & Heijkoop Neuroscience Laboratory. He studies the neurobiology of sexual motivation and behavior and the risk of excessive junk food consumption on the brain reward system.

  • John Chukwuma Oyem, Roy Heijkoop, Eelke Mirthe Simone Snoeren :
    Temporal copulatory patterns of female sexual behavior
    2023
  • John Oyem, Roy Heijkoop, Eelke Snoeren :
    The role of the lateral habenula in male rat sexual behaviour
    2022

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    Research interests

    The neural orchestration of motivated behaviors using sexual behavior and feeding behavior in Wistar rats as a model to unravel the complexity of reward and motivation. Currently studying the microstructural organization of temporal copulatory patterns and sexual motivation in Wistar rats.


    Member of research group

    Behavioral and Translational Neuroscience   English content

    Member of project

    Snoeren