New research conducted by Andrea King, professor of psychiatry and behavioral neuroscience at UChicago, found that very heavy drinkers display the same impairment as light drinkers when consuming their usual excessive amount.

The events of the last several months have compelled us to realize that many different groups of people have been systematically denied full and open participation in American life. Some devastatingly alarming events—lives extinguished for no reason—have left many of us questioning our contributions to injustice and how structures we take for granted bestow privilege to some of us over others.

Among the most prominent goals of UChicago’s Neuroscience Institute is to make a major contribution to the understanding of neural circuits—how information is processed by networks of neurons. But experimentation to understand neural circuitry is costly and complicated, in several ways.