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ADDICTION RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES
These seminars, hosted by the Alcohol Research Center (ARC), Neurobiology of Addictions Research Center (NARC), and the Women’s Research Center (WRC), are held on THURSDAYS from 12:00p.m. to 1:00p.m. in the Institute of Psychiatry Auditorium unless otherwise indicated.  Seminar speakers present a formal lecture and then meet individually or in small groups with interested faculty and trainees.  Although intended primarily for the enrichment of the faculty and trainees, the presentations of these prominent scientists are advertised to the MUSC academic community, as well.

UPCOMING ADDICTION RESEARCH SEMINARS

Date      Speaker  Seminar Title 

9/6/12

David Weinshenker, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Human Genetics
Emory University School of Medicine

Mechanism of Disulfiram-induced Cocaine Abstinence

9/20/12

Barry Setlow, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
McKnight Brain Institute
University of Florida College of Medicine

Cost-benefit Decision Making and Drugs of Abuse

10/4/12

Marisa Silveri, PhD
Assistant Professor
Harvard Medical School

Ontogeny of Alcohol Sensitivity and the Role of Brain GABA during Adolescence and Emerging Aduthood
10/18/12Hendree Jones, PhD
Senior Research Psychologist
Substance Abuse Treatment Evaluations and Interventions Program
Research Triangle Institute
Treating Women Who Use Drugs During Pregnancy: Medication and Behavioral Interventions
11/1/12CancelledCancelled
11/15/12

Richard A. Morrisett, PhD
Professor
The University of Texas a Austin

Accumbal Metaplasticity: An Engram Encoding Alcohol Exposure and Reward?
12/6/12

Saul Shiffman, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Pittsburgh

Moved to Jan 3, 2013
12/20/12

Jaideep S. Bains, PhD
Professor, Hotchkiss Brain Institute 
University of Calgary

Cancelled
1/3/13Saul Shiffman, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Pittsburgh
Intermittent Smoking: Do We Need a New Model of Dependence
1/17/13George Siggins, PhD
Professor
Department of Molecular and Integrative Neurosciences 

California Campus, Scripps Research Institute
Cancelled
2/7/13Ghazaleh Sadri-Vakili, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
Heritable Alterations in the Epigenome in Response to Cocaine
2/21/13

Marisa Roberto, PhD
Associate Professor
The Scripps Research Institute

Amygdalar Synaptic Neuroadaptations Associated with Alcohol Dependence
3/7/13Sue Carter, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Co-director, Brain and Body Center
University of Illinois at Chicago
The Neurobiology of Oxytocin: Implications for Addiction
3/21/13Garret D. Stuber, PhD
Assistant Professor

Departments of Psychiatry & Cell and Molecular Physiology
University of North Carolina 
Dissecting the Neural Circuits that Mediate Reward and Aversion
4/4/13

Patricia Janak, PhD
Professor
Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center
University of California at San Francisco

Striatal Contributions to Alcohol Seeking
4/18/13Harriet de Wit, PhD
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
University of Chicago
Determinants of Drug Preference: Translational Studies
5/2/13

Sukumar Vijayaraghavan, PhD
Professor, Department of Physiology and Biophysics
University of Colorado at Denver Medical School

Nicotinic Receptors: Reading Smoke Signals or Who Needs an Action Potential

5/16/13

Ian M. Colrain, PhD
Director, Human Sleep Research Laboratory
SRI International

Sleep and Brain Changes in Alcohol Dependent Adults and Heavy Drinking Youth

6/6/13

Andrew J. Lawrence, PhD
Associate Director,
Florey Institute of Neuroscience & Mental Health
Head, Division of Behavioural Neuroscience
Melbourne, Australia

Peptides & Reward-Seeking

NEUROSCIENCE SEMINAR SERIES
These seminars are part of the Neuroscience course education/training. These seminars are held on FRIDAYS from 3:00p.m.-4:00p.m. in 402 BSB unless otherwise noted.  Seminars are usually based on Neuroscience research.  Although intended primarily for the enrichment of the Neuroscience faculty and students, these presentations are open to the MUSC academic community, as well.  For a complete listing of the seminar speakers, please click on the Neuroscience Seminar Series link.

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