School of Human and Life Sciences

Dr Leigh Gibson

Leigh Gibson   Job Title: Reader

Qualifications: BSc, PhD, C Psychol, R Nutr

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8392 3744

Email Address: L.Gibson@roehampton.ac.uk

PUBLICATIONS

Papers in refereed journals

Book chapters

Abstracts, letters, book reviews

Papers in refereed journals:



Gibson, E. L. & Mohiyeddini C. (2008) Still appetite and still confused: Riposte to Bodenlos, Borckardt and George. Appetite, 51, 229-230.

Gibson, E. L. & Mohiyeddini C. (2008) Vagus nerve stimulation confuses appetite: comment on Bodenlos et al. (2007). Appetite, 51, 223-225.

Dovey, T. M., Staples, P. A., Gibson, E. L. & Halford, J. C. G. (2008) Food neophobia and `picky/fussy' eating in children: A review. Appetite, 50, 181-193.

Brown, K. A., Ogden, J., Vögele, C., & Gibson, E. L. (2008) The role of parental control practices in explaining children's diet and BMI. Appetite, 50, 252-259.

Gibson, E. L. (2007) Carbohydrates and mental function: feeding or impeding the brain? Nutrition Bulletin, 32 Suppl., 71-83.

Steptoe, A., Gibson, E. L., Vuononvirta, R., Williams, E. D., Hamer, M., Rycroft, J. A., Erusalimsky, J. D., & Wardle, J. (2007) The effects of tea on psychophysiological stress responsivity and post-stress recovery: a randomised double-blind trial. Psychopharmacology (Berl), 190, 81-89.

Steptoe, A., Gibson, E. L., Vuononvirta, R., Hamer, M., Wardle, J., Rycroft, J. A., Martin, J. F., & Erusalimsky, J. D. (2007) The effects of chronic tea intake on platelet activation and inflammation: a double-blind placebo controlled trial. Atherosclerosis, 193, 277-282.

Steptoe, A., Gibson, E. L., Hamer, M., & Wardle, J. (2007) Neuroendocrine and cardiovascular correlates of positive affect measured by ecological momentary assessment and by questionnaire. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 32, 56-64.

Gibson, E. L. (2006) Emotional influences on food choice: sensory, physiological and psychological pathways. Physiology and Behavior, 89, 53-61.

Hamer, M., Williams, E., Vuonovirta, R., Giacobazzi, P., Gibson, E. L., & Steptoe, A. (2006) The effects of effort-reward imbalance on inflammatory and cardiovascular responses to mental stress. Psychosomatic Medicine, 68, 408-413.

Hamer, M., Williams, E. D., Vuononvirta, R., Gibson, E. L., & Steptoe, A. (2006) Association between coffee consumption and markers of inflammation and cardiovascular function during mental stress. Journal of Hypertension, 24, 2191-2197.

Hamer, M., Gibson, E. L., Vuononvirta, R., Williams, E., & Steptoe, A. (2006) Inflammatory and hemostatic responses to repeated mental stress: individual stability and habituation over time. Brain Behavior and Immunity, 20, 456-459.

Cooke, L. J., Wardle, J., Gibson, E. L., Sapochnik, M., Sheiham, A., & Lawson, M. (2004) Demographic, familial and trait predictors of fruit and vegetable consumption by pre-school children. Public Health Nutrition, 7, 295-302.

Gibson, E. L. (2004) An appraisal of the FSA's 'review of promotion of food to children'. Journal of the Royal Society of Health, 124, 62-63.

Cooke, L., Wardle, J., & Gibson, E. L. (2003) Relationship between parental report of food neophobia and everyday food consumption in 2-6-year-old children. Appetite, 41, 205-206.

Gibson, E. L. & Wardle, J. (2003) Energy density predicts preferences for fruit and vegetables in 4-year-old children. Appetite, 41, 97-98.

Gibson, E. L. (2003) 'Paradoxical' effect of sucrose or predictable effect of protein? Comment on Goodson et al. (2001). Appetite, 41, 101-102.

Wardle, J., Herrera, M. L., Cooke, L., & Gibson, E. L. (2003) Modifying children's food preferences: the effects of exposure and reward on acceptance of an unfamiliar vegetable. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 57, 341-348.

Wardle, J., Cooke, L. J., Gibson, E. L., Sapochnik, M., Sheiham, A., & Lawson, M. (2003) Increasing children's acceptance of vegetables; a randomized trial of parent-led exposure. Appetite, 40, 155-162.

Gibson, E. L. & Green, M. W. (2002) Nutritional influences on cognitive function: mechanisms of susceptibility. Nutrition Research Reviews, 15, 169-206.
Gibson, E. L. & Wardle, J. (2001) Effect of contingent hunger state on development of appetite for a novel fruit snack. Appetite, 37, 91-101.

Wardle, J., Sanderson, S., Gibson, E. L., & Rapoport, L. (2001) Factor-analytic structure of food preferences in four-year-old children in the UK. Appetite, 37, 217-223.

Gibson, E. L. & Booth, D. A. (2000) Food-conditioned odour rejection in the late stages of the meal, mediating learnt control of meal volume by aftereffects of food consumption. Appetite, 34, 295-303.

Oliver, G., Wardle, J., & Gibson, E. L. (2000) Stress and food choice: a laboratory study. Psychosomatic Medicine, 62, 853-865.

Curzon, G. & Gibson, E. L. (1999) The serotonergic appetite suppressant fenfluramine. Reappraisal and rejection. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 467, 95-100.

Gibson, E. L. & Desmond, E. (1999) Chocolate craving and hunger state: implications for the acquisition and expression of appetite and food choice. Appetite, 32, 219-240.

Gibson, E. L., Checkley, S., Papadopoulos, A., Poon, L., Daley, S., & Wardle, J. (1999) Increased salivary cortisol reliably induced by a protein-rich midday meal. Psychosomatic Medicine, 61, 214-224.

Gibson, E. L. & Wardle, J. (1999) Approches éxperimentales pour l'étude psychologique des choix alimentaires. Cahiers de Nutrition et de Diététique, 34, 287-290.

Gibson, E. L., Wardle, J., & Watts, C. J. (1998) Fruit and vegetable consumption, nutritional knowledge and beliefs in mothers and children. Appetite, 31, 205-228.

Curzon, G., Gibson, E. L., & Oluyomi, A. O. (1997) Appetite suppression by commonly used drugs depends on 5-HT receptors but not on 5-HT availability. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences, 18, 21-25.

Gibson, E. L., Barnfield, A. M. C., & Curzon, G. (1996) Dissociation of effects of chronic diazepam treatment and withdrawal on hippocampal dialysate 5-HT and mCPP-induced anxiety in rats. Behavioural Pharmacology, 7, 185-193.

Wardle, J., Wrightson, K., & Gibson, L. (1996) Body fat distribution in South Asian Women and Children. International Journal of Obesity, 20, 267-271.

Gibson, E. L., Wainwright, C. J., & Booth, D. A. (1995) Disguised protein in lunch after low-protein breakfast conditions food-flavor preferences dependent on recent lack of protein intake. Physiology and Behavior, 58, 363-371.

Gibson, E. L., Barnfield, A. M., & Curzon, G. (1994) Evidence that mCPP-induced anxiety in the plus-maze is mediated by postsynaptic 5-HT2C receptors but not by sympathomimetic effects. Neuropharmacology, 33, 457-65.

Oluyomi, A. O., Gibson, E. L., Barnfield, A. M., & Curzon, G. (1994) d-Fenfluramine and d-norfenfluramine hypophagias do not require increased hypothalamic 5-hydroxytryptamine release. European Journal of Pharmacology, 264, 111-5.

Gibson, E. L., Kennedy, A. J., & Curzon, G. (1993) d-Fenfluramine- and d-norfenfluramine-induced hypophagia: differential mechanisms and involvement of postsynaptic 5-Ht receptors. European Journal of Pharmacology, 242, 83-90.

Kennedy, A. J., Gibson, E. L., O'Connell, M. T., & Curzon, G. (1993) Effects of housing, restraint and chronic treatments with mCPP and sertraline on behavioural responses to mCPP. Psychopharmacology (Berl), 113, 262-268.

Booth, D. A., Conner, M. T., & Gibson, E. L. (1989) Measurement of food perception, food preference, and nutrient selection. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 561, 226-242.

Gibson, E. L. & Booth, D. A. (1989) Dependence of carbohydrate-conditioned flavor preference on internal state in rats. Learning and Motivation, 20, 36-47.

Gibson, E. L. & Booth, D. A. (1988) Fenfluramine and amphetamine suppress dietary intake without affecting learned preferences for protein or carbohydrate cues. Behavioural Brain Research, 30, 25-29.

Baker, B. J., Booth, D. A., Duggan, J. P., & Gibson, E. L. (1987) Protein appetite demonstrated: learned specificity of protein- cue preference to protein need in adult rats. Nutrition Research, 7, 481-487.

Booth, D. A., Gibson, E. L., & Baker, B. J. (1986) Gastromotor mechanism of fenfluramine anorexia. Appetite, 7 Supplement, 57-69.

Gibson, E. L. & Booth, D. A. (1986) Feeding induced by injection of norepinephrine near the paraventricular nucleus is suppressed specifically by the early stages of strong postingestional satiety in the rat. Physiological Psychology, 14, 98-103.

Gibson, E. L. & Booth, D. A. (1986) Acquired protein appetite in rats: dependence on a protein-specific need state. Experientia, 42, 1003-1004.

Matthews, J. W., Gibson, E. L., & Booth, D. A. (1985) Norepinephrine-facilitated eating: Reduction in saccharin preference and conditioned flavor preferences with increase in quinine aversion. Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior, 22, 1045-1052.

Book chapters:


Gibson, E. L. & Brunstrom, J. M. (2007) Learned influences on appetite and food intake: Evidence in human beings. In S. J. Cooper & T. C. Kirkham (Eds.) Progress in Brain Research: Appetite and Body Weight -- Integrative Systems and the Development of Anti-Obesity Drugs, pp. 271-300. Elsevier: London.

Wardle, J. & Gibson, E. L. (2007) Stress and diet; non-psychiatric. In G. Fink, G. Chrousos, I. Craig, R. de Kloet, G. Feuerstein, B. McEwen, N. Rose, R. Rubin & A. Steptoe (Eds), Encyclopedia of Stress, 2nd Ed, pp. 797-805. Elsevier: Oxford.

Gibson, E. L. (2006) Mood, emotions and food choice. In R. Shepherd & M. Raats, Psychology of food choice, pp. 113-140. Nutrition Society Frontiers in Nutritional Science series, CAB International: Wallingford.

Gibson, E. L. & Green, M. W. (2005) Effects of diet on behaviour. In B. Caballero, L. Allen & A. Prentice (Eds) Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition, 2nd Ed, pp. 183-195. Elsevier Science: Oxford.

Gibson, E. L. (2003) Carbohydrates, stress and cognitive function. In J. Weststrate (Ed.), Wellbeing and performance, pp. 34-36. Unilever Health Institute symposium series: Vlaardingen.

Wardle, J. & Gibson, E.L. (2002) Impact of stress on diet: processes and implications. In S. Stansfeld & M. G. Marmot (Eds), Stress and the heart: psychosocial pathways to coronary heart disease, pp. 124-149. BMJ Books: London.

Gibson EL (2001) Learning in the development of food cravings. In M. M. Hetherington (Ed), Food cravings and addiction, pp.193-234. Leatherhead Publishing: Leatherhead.

Benton, D., Bezirtoglou, E., Cayuela, C., Dantzer, R., Deijen, J. B., Denariaz, G., Gibson, E. L., Haynes, C., Hetherington, M., Legros., J. J., Lindeman, M., Lluch, A., Macht, M., McHugh, K., Moreno, F. A., Müller, H. M., Parizkova, J., Pasquali, R., Planas, M., Riedel, W., Rogozkin, V., Sakata, T., Soborka, L., Soulimani, R., Tremblay, A., Uvnäs-Moberg, K., Waldhäusl, W.-K., Wallis, D., Wurtman, J. (2001) Stress and nutrition: a fascinating crosstalk: John Libbey: Montrouge; London.

Curzon, G. & Gibson, E. L. (1998) The pharmacological treatment of obesity. In Watson, S.J. (Ed), Psychopharmacology: the fourth generation of progress, CD-ROM version, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins: Baltimore.
URL: http://www.acnp.org/citations/GN401000156.

Booth, D. A., Gibson, E. L., Toase, A-M. & Freeman, R. P. J. (1994) Small objects of desire: the recognition of appropriate foods and drinks and its neural mechanisms. In C. R. Legg & D. A. Booth (Eds.), Appetite: neural and behavioural bases (pp. 98-126). Oxford University Press.

Curzon, G., Gibson, E. L., Kennedy, A. J. & Oluyomi, A. O. (1993) Serotonergic pharmacology of appetite. In P. M. Vanhoutte, P. R. Saxena, R. Paoletti, N. Brunello & A. S. Jackson (Eds), Serotonin: from cell biology to pharmacology and therapeutics (pp. 393-399). Milan: Kluver Academic Press.

Booth, D. A, Duggan, J. P. & Gibson, E. L. (1993) Roles for the SCN in control of dietary intake and selection. In H. Nakagawa, Y. Oomura & K. Nagai (Eds.), New functional aspects of the suprachiasmatic nucleus of the hypothalamus (pp. 149-158). London3: John Libbey.

Curzon, G., Gibson, E. L., Kennedy, A. J., Kennett, G. A., Sarna, G. S & Whitton, P. (1991) Anxiogenic and other effects of mCPP, a 5-HT1C agonist. In M. Briley & S. E. File (Eds.), New concepts in anxiety (pp. 154-167). London: MacMillan.

Booth, D. A. & Gibson, E. L. (1988) Control of eating behaviour by amino acid supply. In G. Huether (Ed.), Amino acid availability and brain function in health and disease (pp. 259 266). Berlin: Springer.

Abstracts, Letters, Book Reviews, etc.:


Booth, D. A., Matthews, J. W., & Gibson, E. L. (1984). Rapidly conditioned taste and odour preferences that depend on the rat's visceral state are modulated by rostral hypothalamic noradrenaline dosing. Chemical Senses, 8, 246.

Gibson, E. L. & Booth, D. A. (1986). Effects of dl fenfluramine and d amphetamine on selection of protein and carbohydrate predictive olfactory cues. Neuroscience Letters, Suppl. 24, S24.

Booth, D. A. Baker, B. J. & Gibson, E. L. (1986). Learned selection of protein predictive dietary cues during protein specific need, tested with 5 HT and CA agents. Appetite, 7, 244.

Booth, D. A., Gibson, E. L. & Baker, B. J. (1986). Behavioral dissection of the intake and dietary selection effects of injection of fenfluramine, amphetamine or PVN norepinephrine. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 12, 593.

Gibson, E. L. & Booth, D. A. (1987). Paraventricular noradrenaline injection modulates learned integration of visceral satiety signals and dietary stimuli. Neuroscience Letters, Suppl. 29, S97.

Gibson, E. L., Baker, B. J. & Booth, D. A. (1987). How a food can be chosen when its nutrient content is needed. Bulletin of the British Psychological Society, 40, A45.

Gibson, E. L., Barber, D. J. & Booth, D. A. (1987). 5HT and CA precursor levels during protein selection. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 13, 15.

Gibson, E. L. (1988). Book review of A. W. Logue, The Psychology of Eating and Drinking. Journal of Psychophysiology, 2, 172-173.

Gibson, E. L. (1989). A mechanism for adaptive food choice in omnivores: nutrient conditioning of dietary preference triggered by specific need. The Psychologist, 2, 41.

Gibson, E. L., Barnfield, A. M. C. & Curzon, G. (1992). mCPP-induced anxiety in the elevated plus-maze: post-synaptic 5-HT mediation. Journal of Psychopharmacology Abstract Book, A52 (208), BAP/EBPS Joint Meeting, Cambridge, August 1992.

Gibson, E. L., Kennedy, A. J. & Curzon, G. (1992). d-Fenfluramine and d-norfenfluramine hypophagia: involvement of post-synaptic 5-HT1C receptors? Journal of Psychopharmacology (Abstracts), A83, 330.

Gibson, E. L., Wainwright, C. J. & Booth, D. A. (1992). Disguised protein in lunch after low-protein breakfast conditions preference for protein-paired flavor during protein lack. Appetite, 19, 183.

Gibson, E. L., Oluyomi, A. O., Barnfield, A. M. C. & Curzon, G. (1993). Hypothalamic 5-HT release is not necessary for d-fenfluramine-induced hypophagia. Appetite, 21, 179.

Gibson, E. L., Watts, C., Wrightson, K. & Wardle, J. (1995). Factors influencing fruit and vegetable consumption in children. Appetite, 24, 266.

Wardle, J., Gibson, E. L. & Watts, C. (1995). Parental influences on children's nutritional knowledge, diet and risk factor status. Appetite, 24, 271.

Curzon, G., Oluyomi, A. O. & Gibson, E. L. (1997). Evidence now suggests that both D-fenfluramine and fluoxetine inhibit feeding by mechanisms requiring 5-HT receptors but not 5-HT stores. Trends in Pharmacological Sciences - Letters, 18, 191-192.

Gibson, E. L., Westcombe, A., and Wardle, J. (1998). Influences on acceptability of fat-free milk in full-fat milk users. Appetite, 31, 283.

Gibson, E. L. & Wardle, J. (2000). Effect of contingent hunger state on development of appetite for a novel fruit snack, Appetite, 35, 198.

Gibson, E. L., Schulze, K. K., Hewitt, G. & Wardle, J. (2000). Actual and perceived food intake in restrained and unrestrained eaters: implications for cognitive restraint theory, Appetite, 35, 198.

Gibson, E. L., Sivapathasundaram, V. & Judd, P. A. (2000). Learnt protein appetite in rats and human beings: role of the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis, Appetite, 35, 288.

Gibson, E. L., Wardle, J., Edwards, C., Cooke, L. (2002). Message on childhood obesity was missed. BMJ Letters, 324, 676.

Gibson, E. L. & Wardle, J. (2002). Effects of hunger and taste priming on appetite for energy-dense food and fruit. Appetite, 36, 238.

Gibson, E. L. (2003). Learnt protein appetite in human beings: involvement of cortisol in postingestive reinforcement by protein intake. Appetite, 40, 334.

Gibson, E. L. (2003). Book review of Conner, M. & Armitage, C. J. "The Social Psychology of Food", Open University Press, Buckingham and Philadelphia. Appetite, 41, 99-100.

Gibson, E. L. & Wardle, J. (2004). Effects of hunger and fruit eating habit on appetite for energy-dense food and fruit. International Journal of Obesity, 28, Suppl. 1, S216.

Gibson, E. L. & Wardle, J. (2004). Resistance to hunger-dependent increased intake of an energy-dense snack in frequent fruit eaters. Appetite, 43, 113.

Gibson, E. L. (2006). Learned influences on human food choice and intake: a review. Appetite, 47, 264.

Gibson, E. L., Carnell, S. & Wardle, J. (2006). Learnt satiation in effects of disguised preloads on lunch intake and appetite in preschool children. Appetite, 47, 281.

Vögele, C., Gibson, E. L., Ogden, J. & Brown, K. (2007). Nahrungsmittelauswahl und Belohnungsaufschub bei übergwichtigen und adipösen Kindern. Verhaltenstherapie, 17 Suppl. 1, 31.

Gibson, E.L., Latif, R.H. & Laurens, A. (2007) Delayed satiation by sweetening a fat-rich food: independence from cholecystokinin release. International Journal of Obesity, 31 Supplement 1, S100.

Vögele, C., Gibson, E. L., Ogden, J. & Brown, K. (2007). Food choice and delay of gratification: an experimental investigation in obese, overweight and normal-weight primary school children. International Journal of Obesity, 31 Supplement 1, S117.

Gibson, E. L., Hamer, M., Steptoe, A. & Wardle, J. (2008) Effects of work-related stress and stress proneness on sweet and fatty food consumption in men. Appetite, EPub doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2008.05.017.