Zoe McElligott, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry and pharmacology and member of the 黑料网 Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, will investigate how neurotransmitters promote alcohol consumption and whether chronic alcohol consumption alters the strength of a specific brain circuit.
听惭肠贰濒濒颈驳辞迟迟听笔丑顿, assistant professor in the 黑料网 Department of Psychiatry and the 黑料网 Department of Pharmacology, received a $1.98-million dollar聽grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism 鈥� part of the NIH 鈥� to investigate a neural circuit that聽promotes alcohol consumption.
at the 黑料网 Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies will lead the research聽in collaboration with聽, professor in the 黑料网 Department of Psychology and Neuroscience,聽to mechanistically dissect聽the neurotransmitters that play a role in the cellular pathway between the central nucleus of the聽amgydala聽(CeA) and the parabrachial (PBN), to promote the consumption of alcohol. Furthermore, this grant will investigate if chronic alcohol consumption alters the strength of this circuit.
By understanding how this circuit functions to promote the consumption of alcohol, the researchers hope to develop new hypotheses for pharmacological interventions to prevent excessive alcohol consumption and abuse.聽聽in the journal聽Neuroscience聽in 2019.
In April, McElligott received a $2-million聽聽opioid withdrawal,