The Neurobiology of Addiction Research Center (NARC)
Seminars & Events
The NARC offers bimonthly seminars in collaboration with the other two addiction research centers that focus on basic and clinical research in addiction. The speakers are nationally and internationally recognized leaders in the field of addiction. Prior to each seminar there is a journal club meeting that discusses selected works of the speaker. In addition, there are updates for the lay public on the biology and clinical treatment of addiction.
In addition to this web page, there are other websites maintained in part by the NARC to provide the most up to date information on addiction, clinical trials and various help lines (buttons). Finally, as part of brain awareness week NARC faculty partake in special teaching sessions in primary schools in the Charleston area.
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Date | Guest Speaker | Seminar Title | Host |
September 6, 2012 | David Weinshenker, Ph.D. | “Mechanism of disulfiram-induced cocaine abstinence” | Brady/See |
September 20, 2012 | Barry Setlow, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine | “Cost-benefit decision making and drugs of abuse” | Kalivas/See |
October 4, 2012 | Marisa Silveri, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School | "Ontogeny of Alcohol Sensitivity and the Role of Brain GABA during Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood" | Becker |
October 18, 2012 (SFN 10/13-17) | Hendree Jones, Ph.D. Senior Research Psychologist, Substance Abuse Treatment Evaluations and Interventions Program, Research Triangle Institute | “Ontogeny of Alcohol Sensitivity and the Role of Brain GABA during Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood” | Brady/See |
November 1, 2012 | CANCELLED | NA | Kalivas |
November 15, 2012 | Richard A. Morrisett, Ph.D. Professor, The University of Texas a Austin | "Accumbal Metaplasticity: An Engram Encoding Alcohol Exposure and Reward?" | Becker |
December 6, 2012 | Shiffman moved to January 3rd | NA | Brady/See |
December 20, 2012 | CANCELLED Jaideep S. Bains, Ph.D. Professor, Hotchkiss Brain Institute, University of Calgary |
| Kalivas |
January 3, 2013 | Saul Shiffman, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychology | "Intermittent Smoking: Do We Need A New Model of Dependence?" | Becker |
January 17, 2013 | George Siggins, Ph.D. Professor Department of Molecular and Integrative Neurosciences California Campus, Scripps Research Institute | “The Drugged Synapse: Regulation by Neuropeptides and Neuroimmune Factors” | Brady/See |
February 7, 2013 | Ghazaleh Sadri-Vakili, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School | “Heritable Alterations in the Epigenome in Response to Cocaine." | Kalivas/McGinty Neuroscience (Katy Donovan 6-2339) |
February 21, 2013 | Marisa Roberto, Ph.D. Associate Professor, The Scripps Research Institute | “Amygdalar synaptic neuroadaptations associated with alcohol dependence” | Becker Psych (Bob Peiffer 2-5217) |
March 7, 2013 | Sue Carter, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Co-director, Brain and Body Center, University of Illinois at Chicago | "The Neurobiology of Oxytocin: Implications for Addiction" | Brady/See Psych (SCOR) (Jennifer Peterson 2-2388) |
March 21. 2013 (Spring Break) | Garret D. Stuber, Ph.D.
| "Dissecting the neural circuits that mediate reward and aversion" | Kalivas Neuroscience (Katy Donovan 6-2339) |
April 4, 2013 | Patricia Janak, Ph.D. Professor, Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, University of California at San Francisco | "Striatal Contributions to Alcohol Seeking" | Becker Psych (Bob Peiffer 2-5217) |
April 18, 2013 | Harriet de Wit, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago | "TBA" | Brady/See Psych (SCOR) (Jennifer Peterson 2-2388) |
May 2, 2013 | Sukumar Vijayaraghavan Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Colorado at Denver Medical School | "Nicotinic Receptmors: Reading Smoke Signals Or Who Needs an Action Potential" | Kalivas Neuroscience (Katy Donovan 6-2339) |
May 16, 2013 | Ian M. Colrain, Ph.D. | "TBA" | Becker Psych (Bob Peiffer 2-5217) |
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