Knowing how challenging it can be to quit smoking, Andrea King, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, wanted to find a treatment that could help smokers to quit, particularly those who would describe themselves as heavy drinkers.
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Benoit Roux, PhD leads effort to build supercomputing cluster to explore structure and dynamics of biological systems.
What are the features of our brains that truly exist for computation and not as part of a compromise? Put another way, if we were to design a brain from scratch for the sole role of a computer, how would we do it differently?
A new study of mice exposed to cocaine reveals how drugs can cause anatomical changes in the brain.
Dr. Bobby Kasthuri has tried to capture the essence of drugs in the brain for decades. Now, images that highlight the effects are opening the door to find new ways to treat drug addiction.
Nineteen University of Chicago faculty members have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships, effective January 1st, 2022. Join us in congratulating Brent Doiron, PhD and John Maunsell, PhD for their named professorships of first Heinrich Kluver Professor of Neurobiology, Statistics and the College and Albert D. Lasker Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and the College respectively.
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