Neurobiology of Addiction and Co-Morbid Disorders

Erin S. Calipari is at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, USA Dr Nicholas Gilpin completed his undergraduate training in Psychology at University of Texas at Austin, and his Ph.D. in Psychobiology at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. During graduate training, he worked with genetic models of susceptibility to alcoholism. He went on to complete a post-doctoral fellowship in the labs of Drs. George Koob and Marisa Roberto at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, CA, where he used behavioral pharmacology & electrophysiology techniques to explore neural and behavioral dysregulation associated with alcohol dependence. He remains interested in questions of addiction, and is especially interested in understanding why and how alcohol addiction is co-morbid with addiction to other drugs and other psychiatric conditions. His interests also include questions related to subpopulations of addicts and individual differences in propensity to consume alcohol and drugs.

1. Neurobiological aspects of pain in the context of alcohol use disorder

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2. Pain, negative affective states and opioid-based analgesics: Safer pain therapies to dampen addiction

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3. The neural, behavioral, and epidemiological underpinnings of comorbid alcohol use disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder

Hannah N. Carlson and Jeff L. Weiner

4. Cannabis use and posttraumatic stress disorder comorbidity: Epidemiology, biology and the potential for novel treatment approaches

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5. Traumatic brain injury and the misuse of alcohol, opioids, and cannabis

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6. Depression and substance use disorders: Clinical comorbidity and shared neurobiology

Cali A. Calarco and Mary Kay Lobo

7. The role of gut-immune-brain signaling in substance use disorders

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8. Bidirectional causality between addiction and cognitive deficits

Patrick R. Melugin, Suzanne O. Nolan and Cody A. Siciliano

9. Drug addiction co-morbidity with alcohol: Neurobiological insights

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