| Date |
Guest Speaker |
Seminar Title |
|
9-06-07
|
Cancelled |
|
|
9-20-07
|
Jeff Steketee, PhD
Neuroscience Institute Univ of Tennesee, Health Science Center |
"Mechanisms of Cocaine-Induced Sensitization: Involvement of the
Medial Prefrontal Cortex" |
|
10-4-07
|
Mark Von Zastrow, MD, PhD
Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences UCSF |
"Regulation of Neural Signaling Receptors by Endocytic Membrane Traffic" |
|
10-18-07
|
Mehmet Sofuoglu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor Department of Psychiatry, Yale University |
"Progesterone Effects on Stimulant Addiction: Human Laboratory and Clinical Trial Findings" |
|
11-01-07
|
Andrea King, PhD
Department of Psychiatry
University of Chicago |
"Alcohol Response in Binge Drinkers" |
|
11-15-07
|
Therese Kosten, PhD
Associate Professor
Menninger Dept of Psychiatry
Baylor College of Medicine |
"Early Life Stress has Sex-Specific Effects on Addiction and Memory Processes in Rats" |
|
12-06-07
|
Michael E. Charness, MD Chief of Staff
VA Boston Healthcare System |
"Alcohol and the L1 Cell Adhesion Molecule" |
|
12-20-07
|
Jack Bergman, Ph.D.
Dept of Psychiatry
Harvard Med School/ McLean Hospital |
"Medications for Stimulant Abuse:
Preclinical Evaluation in Nonhuman Primates" |
|
01-03-08
|
Wayne C. Drevets, MD
Chief, Neuroimaging in Mood and Anxiety Disorders NIH/NIMH |
"Neural circuits implicated in the pathophysiology of depression" |
|
01-17-08
|
Linda Spear, PhD Distinguished Professor
Department of Pscyhology
State Univ of NY at Binghampton |
"Adolescent-Typical Alcohol Sensitivities and Intake" |
|
02-07-08
|
Cancelled |
|
|
02-21-08
|
Warren K. Bickel, Ph.D
Wilbur D. Mills Chair of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Prevention
Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Center for Addiction Research (CAR) College of Medicine
Professor of Health Behavior and Director, Center for the Study of Tobacco
Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
|
"Tyranny of Small Decisions: Biology, Culture, and Pathology" |
|
03-06-08
|
David Oslin, MD
Geriatric and Addiction Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
|
"Treating Addiction: Translating Neuroscience Into Practice" |
|
03-20-08
|
Robert Edwards, MD
Department of Neurology and Physiology
University of California at San Francisco |
"Multiple Pathways to Regulated Exocytosis" |
|
04-03-08
|
Wendy Lynch, PhD
Department of Psychiatric Medicine
University of Virginia |
"Sex Differences in Vulnerability to Addiction" |
|
04-17-08
|
Andrew Holmes, PhD
Behavioral Science and Genetics Section NIAAA
|
"Genetic Shaping of Emotional and Cognitive Flexibility" |
|
05-01-08
|
Kristen A. Keefe, PhD
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Utah |
"Long-Term Consequences of Methamphetamine-Induced Neurotoxicity on Cellular, Systems, and Behavioral Functions of the Rodent Basal Ganglia" |
|
05-15-08
|
Carl W. Lejuez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director, Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research (CAPER)
University of Maryland
|
"Positive and Negative Reinforcement Processes Underlying the Development and Maintenance of Adolescent Risk Behavior" |
|
05-29-08
|
John E. Helzer, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Director of Health Behavior Research Center
University of Vermont
|
"Stress and Alcohol Consumption: A comparison of Treatment and Non-Treatment Samples Using Interactive Voice Response (IVR)" |
|
06-12-08
|
Gerald Zernig,
Professor
University of Psychiatry
Innsbruck, Austria
|
"Drug Reinforcement - Beyond the Accumbens Dopamine" |
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