| Date |
Guest Speaker |
Seminar Title |
|
9-07-06
|
Cancelled |
|
|
9-21-06
|
John Marshall, PhD
University of California at Irvine |
"Cocaine memories: ERK signaling provides a crack
into relapse prevention" |
|
10-5-06
|
Marilyn Carroll , PhD, Professor
University of Minnesota |
"Influence of sex and ovarian hormones in several
aspects of drug abuse: Animal models" |
|
10-19-06
|
W. David Bradford, PhD, Professor
MUSC |
"Economic Methods for Assessing Time Preferences
and Applications to Medical Decision Making" |
|
11-02-06
|
Mark Thomas , PhD, Asst. Professor
University of Minnesota |
"Cocaine Experience Drives bidirectional Synaptic
Plasticity In Nucleus Accumbens" |
|
11-16-06
|
Linda Dykstra, PhD, Professor & Dean
UNC/Chapel Hill |
"Opioid/NMDA Interactions: A genetic,
pharmacological and behavioral approach" |
|
12-07-06
|
Marlene A. Wilson, PhD, Professor
Universiity of South Carolina |
"The Role of Amygdala Neuropeptide Systems In
Anxiety and The Actions of Anxiolytics" |
|
12-21-06
|
Michael Morgan, PhD
Professor of Psychology
Washington State University Vancouver |
"A New Approach to Understanding the Neural
Mechanisms Underlying Morphine Tolerance" |
|
01-04-07
|
Charles Bradberry, PhD, Assoc. Professor
University of Pittsburgh |
"Cognitive consequences of chronic cocaine
self-administration in rhesus monkeys" |
|
01-18-07
|
Kathleen A. Grant, PhD, Professor
Oregon Health Science University |
"Predicting Chronic Alcohol Binge Drinking in
Monkeys: Role of the HPA Axis, Drinking Typologies and Sex" |
|
02-01-07
|
Sergi Ferre, MD, PhD |
"Computational Role of Neurotransmitter Receptor
Heteromers" |
|
02-15-07
|
Rebecca Craft , PhD, Professor
Washington State University |
"Sex differences in pain and opioid analgesia" |
|
03-01-07
|
Robert M. Anthenelli, MD, Assoc,
Professor
University of Cincinnati
|
"The Role of the Endocannabinoid System in
Nicotine Dependence" |
|
03-15-07
|
Mark Packard, PhD, Professor
Texas A&M |
"Amygdala and Affective Modulation of Multiple
Memory Systems" |
|
04-05-07
|
Sharon Allen, MD, PhD
University of Minnesota
|
"Hormonal Effects on Nicotine Dependence and
Relapse in Women" |
|
04-19-07
|
Subhash C. Panday, PhD, Professor
University of Minnesota |
"Anxiety and Alcoholoism: Perspectives from
molecular, behavioral, and neurocircuiry approaches" |
|
05-03-07
|
Donald M. Kuhn, PhD, Professor
Wayne State |
"Microglial-Neuronal Crosstalk: How the Innate
Immune System of the CNS is Tricked into Damaging Neurons" |
|
05-17-07
|
Suzette Evans, PhD, Professor
Columbia University |
"The Role of Hormones in Modulating the Effects
of Cocaine in Men and Women" |
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