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Georgia D. Andrianopoulos, PhD
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Brain Fitness, Inc.
Email Dr. Georgia Andrianopoulos georgia@brainfitnessinc.com
Georgia is passionately committed to helping people reach their true potential. She is a scientist and avid humanitarian who uses her problem solving skills to empower others to break through their obstacles and limitations.
Georgia is a physiologic psychologist. She completed her graduate work at Case Western Reserve University. Her research experience has been in basic neuroscience and gastrointestinal diseases. She is the author of numerous original research publications and has contributed chapters for academic books. Her research on exercise and colorectal cancer received national recognition. For the past twenty years Georgia has worked in the field of eating disorders, first as director of the Eating Disorders clinic at the University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, and later in private practice. She has been interviewed by Mary Ann Ahern ( WMAQ TV Chicago (NBC) on the topic of cravings and was key speaker on radio shows in the topic of obesity.
Her work on brain-based methods for weight loss is the topic of her new book “Retain Your Brain Reshape Your Body” -available in Dec. 2007 (McGraw-Hill).
Dr. Andrianopoulos. Dr. Georgia Andrianopoulos completed her undergraduate degree at Butler University in Indianapolis with a major in psychology and minors in philosophy and biology. She received her Masters and PhD from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio. Her masters thesis research examined the relative inhibitory strength of limbic and striatal structures.
Dr. Andrianopoulos completed her post doctorate training at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Department of Surgery in Chicago in 1983-1985.
Following her post doctorate training she was appointed as Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery (1986-1991) and Psychiatry (1990-1993).
While at the University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center she served as director of the Eating Disorders Clinic and assisted in medical student and resident teaching.
Dr. Andrianopoulos has received the Sigma-Xi, Science Achievement Award, has served as grant reviewer for the American Cancer Society, Illinois Division Chicago, Illinois (one time reviewer), and was a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Nutrition and Cancer in 1990.
She has presented research findings in national and international meetings and has been an invited speaker for seminars on academic and professional training.
She has authored and coauthored numerous scientific articles and book chapters, including:
- Andrianopoulos, GD., Flaherty JA. Bereavement: Effects of Immunity and Risk for Illness. In: Stress and Immunity. N. Plotnikoff, A. Murgo, R. Faith and J. Wybran (Eds). CRC Press, Boca Raton FLA, 1991.
- Persky V, Andrianopoulos GD. Etiology of colon cancer: is it all in the diet In: Problems in General Surgery: controversies of colon cancer. R.L. Nelson editor. J.B Lippincott, Philadelphia V. 4(1), p11-23, 1987.
- Andrianopoulos GD, Wilcott RC. Activity-stress induced pathology in the colon and rectum in the rat. Physiology and Behavior 28: 191-193, 1982
- Andrianopoulos GD, Bombeck CT, Nyhus LM. Influence of maturation on activity-stress related pathology in the rat. Physiology and Behavior 36: (6) 1105-1110, 1986
- Andrianopoulos GD, Nelson RL, Bombeck CT, Souza G. The role of physical activity on 1,2-dimehtylhydrazine rat colon carcinogenesis. Anticancer Research 7:(5): 849-852, 1987
- Andrianopoulos GD, Nelson RL, Misumi A, Bombeck CT. The influence of activty-stress on experimental colon carcinogenesis: early histopathologic changes and oclon tumor induction. Cancer Detection and Prevention, 13:31-39, 1988
- Andrianopoulos GD, Nelson RL, Bombeck CT, Souza G, Nyhus LM. The protective influence of physical activity on carcinogenesis in the rat colorectum. The Physiologist, 30(4):134, 1987
- Andrianopoulos GD, Nelson Rl, Barch DH, Nyhus LM. Sulfasalazine alters the character of mimethylhydrazine-induced colorectal carcinoma in rats. Anitcancer Research 10(1): 1990
- Andrianopoulos GD, Nelson RL, Bombeck CT, Nyhus LM. The effect of milt stress on 1,2-DMH colorectal cancer. Cancer Detection and Prevention 14(5) : 577-81, 1990.
Andrianopoulos GD and Nelson RL. Psychosocial variables confounding the association of alcohol intake and breast cancer risk. (Letter). New England Journal of Medicine 317920): 1268, 1987.
- Andrianopoulos GD . Clarification of the hypothetical relationship between depression and cancer risk. (Letter). JAMA in press.
- Nelson RL, Tanure JC, Andrianopoulos GD. The effect of dietary milk and calcium on experimental colon carcinogenesis. Diseases of the Colon and Rectum 30(12): 947-949, 1987
- Nelson RL, Tanure JC, Andrianopoulos GD, Souza G, Lands W. A comparison of dietary fish oil and corn oil on experimental colorectal carcinogenesis. Proceedings of American Oikl Chemists Society: Polyunsaturated fatty acids and eicosanoids. WM. Lands (ed.). AOCS, 1987 p. 518.
- Nelson RL, Tanure JC, Andrianopoulos GD, Souza G, Lands WEM. A comparison of dietary fish oil and corn oil in experimental colorectal carcinogenesis. Nutrition and Cancer 11(4) :21-220, 1988
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