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BNL Addiction Symposiumat the AAAS Annual MeetingFebruary 16, 2007, San Francisco, CA | Symposium Highlights
Addiction and the Brain: Are We Hard-Wired To Abuse Drugs?
Fortunately, recent scientific advances have revolutionized our understanding of addiction as a chronic disease, with dramatic implications for improving prevention and treatment. Some of the greatest advances have come from cross-disciplinary teams of chemists, physicists, and medical doctors using sophisticated brain-imaging technologies to reveal the mechanisms underlying the reinforcing, addictive, and toxic properties of drugs. Leaders in this field will present new findings on the neurological mechanisms and consequences of addiction. They will cover a variety of drugs, including emerging problems, such as methamphetamine and inhalants, as well as the effects of fetal drug exposure, the addiction and obesity connection, and linkages between drug abuse and AIDS. New prospects for prevention and treatment will be emphasized.
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Nora Volkow, M.D. Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse Biosketch | Presentation Slides |
"Dopamine's Role in Drug Craving" 8:40 - 9 a.m. Pacific Time |
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Joanna Fowler, Ph.D. Director, Center for Translational Neuroimaging Brookhaven National Laboratory Bio & CV | Biosketch | Presentation Slides |
"Monoamine Oxidase in Smoking: Role in Addiction
and Health" 9 - 9:20 a.m. Pacific Time |
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Stephen Dewey, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Brookhaven National Laboratory Bio & CV | Biosketch | Presentation Slides |
"Imaging the Causes and Consequences of Inhalant
Abuse" 9:20 - 9:40 a.m. Pacific Time |
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Edythe D. London, Ph.D. Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology Semel Institute of Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Science University of California, Los Angeles Biosketch | Presentation Slides |
"Methamphetamine and the Brain: A Problem of
Inhibitory Control" 9:40 - 10 a.m. Pacific Time |
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Gene-Jack Wang, M.D. Chair, Medical Department Brookhaven National Laboratory Bio & CV | Biosketch | Presentation Slides |
"The Addiction-Obesity Connection" 10 - 10:20 a.m. Pacific Time |
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Helene Benveniste, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Stony Brook University and Scientist, Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory Bio & CV | Biosketch |
"Maternal-Fetal Drug Transfer: Implications for
Drug Abuse and Therapeutics" 10:20 - 10:40 a.m. Pacific Time |
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Charles O’Brien, M.D., Ph.D. Director, Department of Psychiatry VA Medical Center/University of Pennsylvania Biosketch | Presentation Slides |
"Promising Approaches in the Treatment of Drug
Addiction" 10:40 - 11 a.m. Pacific Time |
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Professor Yasmin Hurd Departments of Psychiatry and Pharmacology & Biological Sciences Mount Sinai School of Medicine Biosketch |
11:05 - 11:10 a.m. Pacific Time |
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Barry McCaffrey Retired U.S. Army General Former Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Biosketch |
11 - 11:05 a.m. Pacific Time |
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Drug abuse is one of the world’s most challenging public health problems,
taking a tremendous societal toll at many levels — from its cost ($484
billion per year in the United States alone for health-care expenditures,
lost earnings, and costs associated with crime and accidents) to the human
suffering it causes in the form of cancer, heart disease, AIDS, stress,
child abuse, and other violence. This enormous burden affects all of
society, including substance abusers, their families, the educational
system, industry, social welfare and criminal justice systems, and the
public at large. 
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