Research Projects

These 14 projects — 9 interdisciplinary research consortia, one oversight committee, and three resource teams — integrate the work of different disciplines to research stress and its relationship to self control and addiction, studying aspects such as addictive, dysfunctional, and compulsive behaviors, physiological responses and environmental stressors.

Oversight Committee

1. Interdisciplinary Research on Stress, Self-Control & Addiction

Research Consortia

2. Ionic and second messenger basis of stress induced prefrontal cortex dysfunction
3. Stress-induced compulsive behaviors: CRF regulation
4. Stress, Prefrontal Cortex, and Decision Making
5. Role of endocannabinoid signaling in stress-coping behavior
6. Stress, neurodevelopment and the emergence of addictive behaviors in adolescence
7. fMRI of Stress & Self-Control in Smoking & Obesity
8. Norepinephrine Transporter Imaging in Alcohol Dependence and Obesity
9. Modeling Stress-Precipitated Smoking Lapse for Medication Development
10. Breaking addictive behaviors via attention and self control exercises
11. Types of stressors and their impact on health related addictions: smoking, drinking and BMI

Resource Teams

12. Interdisciplinary Research Education
13. Human Subjects Core: Protocols, Statistics, Collaborative Method Development and Tools
14. Neuroendocrine, Pharmacology and Genetics Core Resource