Dr Sarah Ch'ng

Research Fellow - Addiction Neuroscience Laboratory

Dr Sarah Ch’ng

PhD

sarah.chng@florey.edu.au
+61 3 9035 6750

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Addiction Neuroscience lab. I am interested in the evolution of brain circuits underlying innate behaviours. Salt appetite is a prototypical innate behaviour, whereby salt-depleted animals exhibit a strong instinctive drive to seek and ingest salt.

My current research focus is centred on the neural substrates underlying salt appetite, with a particular focus on endogenous opioid signalling in the central amygdala.

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Investigational drugs for alcohol use disorders: a review of preclinical data
Expert Opinion on Investigational Drugs
Year: 04/05/2018
Author(s): Sarah S Ch’Ng, Andrew J Lawrence
Author(s): Sarah S Ch’Ng, Andrew J Lawrence
Glucose Availability Predicts the Feeding Response to Ghrelin in Male Mice, an Effect Dependent on AMPK in AgRP Neurons
Endocrinology
Volume: 159
Page(s): 3605-3614
Year: 2018
Author(s): Lockie, S.H., Stark, R., Mequinion, M., Ch'ng, S., Kong, D., Spanswick, D.C., Lawrence, A.J., Andrews, Z.B.
Author(s): Lockie, S.H., Stark, R., Mequinion, M., Ch'ng, S., Kong, D., Spanswick, D.C., Lawrence, A.J., Andrews, Z.B.
The intersection of stress and reward: BNST modulation of aversive and appetitive states
Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
Volume: 87
Page(s): 108-125
Year: 2018
Author(s): Ch'ng, S., Fu, J., Brown, R.M., McDougall, S.J., Lawrence, A.J.
Author(s): Ch'ng, S., Fu, J., Brown, R.M., McDougall, S.J., Lawrence, A.J.
Distribution of the orexin-1 receptor (OX1R) in the mouse forebrain and rostral brainstem: A characterisation of OX1R-eGFP mice
Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy
Volume: 66-67
Page(s): 1-9
Year: 2015
Characterization of the relaxin family peptide receptor 3 system in the mouse bed nucleus of the stria terminalis
Journal of Comparative Neurology
Year: 13/11/2019
Author(s): Sarah S. Ch'ng, Jingjing Fu, Robyn M. Brown, Craig M. Smith, Mohammed Akhter Hossain, Stuart J. McDougall, Andrew J. Lawrence
Author(s): Sarah S. Ch'ng, Jingjing Fu, Robyn M. Brown, Craig M. Smith, Mohammed Akhter Hossain, Stuart J. McDougall, Andrew J. Lawrence

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