When
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Where
GW Hospital Auditorium
900 23rd St NW,
Washington, DC 20037
(Lower Level)
Jeremy Waletsky, MD, GW Clinical Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Health Presents
Rats Can Make Good Choices: Effect of Alternative Food and Social Rewards on Drug Use and Relapse in Rat Models of Addiction.
Meeting ID: 962 3062 5107
Passcode: 605431
Speaker:
Yavin Shaham, PhD
Yavin Shaham, PhD is an internationally recognized addictions researcher who serves as the Chief of the Behavioral Neuroscience Research Branch and Chief of the Neurobiology Relapse Section of the National Institute of Drug Abuse of the NIH. Shahan's groundbreaking, clinically relevant research looks at neurobiological mechanisms of relapse to drug seeking and choice of drug versus non-drug rewards using animal models.