Drugs, both legal (for example, alcohol and nicotine ... Strategies to combat addiction The knowledge of the neurobiology of drugs and the adaptive changes that occur with addiction is guiding ...

The neurobiology of addiction and reward processing is a complex ... the impact of substances like alcohol on brain structure, and the mechanisms underlying dopamine release.

Our laboratory employs cutting-edge techniques and a multidisciplinary approach to determine the neural basis of addiction and why this varies across individuals. Specifically, we are interested in ...

Our laboratory investigates the neural basis of addiction, focusing on how neuropeptides in the limbic system affect disorders such as alcohol use disorder and binge eating disorder. We use ...