Addiction
News Releases

Methylphenidate Modulates Brain-Circuit Connectivity in Cocaine-Addicted Individuals
Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Personality-Influencing Gene May be a Key to Long Life
Thursday, January 3, 2013

Drug-Related Choice Predicts Future Drug Use
Monday, December 17, 2012

EEG Provides Insight into Drug-Related Choice in Addiction
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Drinking Alcohol Shrinks Critical Brain Regions in Genetically Vulnerable Mice
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Gray Matter in Brain’s Control Center Linked to Ability to Process Reward
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Cocaine Images Capture Motivated Attention Among Users
Monday, April 4, 2011

Miniature 'Wearable' PET Scanner Ready for Use
Sunday, March 13, 2011

Genetic Makeup and Duration of Abuse Reduce the Brain's Neurons in Drug Addiction
Monday, March 7, 2011

First Direct Evidence that Response to Alcohol Depends on Genes
Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Ritalin Improves Brain Function, Task Performance in Cocaine Abusers
Monday, September 6, 2010

New Findings Imply Exercise in Adolescence May Help Prevent Drug Abuse
Wednesday, August 4, 2010

European Patent Office Grants Patent for the Use of Vigabatrin/CPP-109 for the Prevention of Addiction to Opioids in Pain Management
Friday, July 9, 2010

Media Advisory: Visualizing "Your Brain on Drugs"
Friday, April 23, 2010

Brain Scan Study Shows Cocaine Abusers Can Control Cravings
Monday, November 30, 2009

Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners Continues Clinical Development of CPP-109 for the Treatment of Cocaine and Methamphetamine Addiction
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Deficits in Brain’s Reward System Observed in ADHD Patients
Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners Announces Top-Line Results of CPP-109 Phase II Trial for Cocaine Addiction
Friday, May 29, 2009

Brain-Behavior Disconnect in Cocaine Addiction
Monday, May 25, 2009

Recent Drug Use Masks Cocaine Abusers' Cognitive Impairment
Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Control Your Hunger? Study Shows Men Can, Women Can't
Monday, January 19, 2009

Drug-Related Preference In Cocaine Addiction Extends to Images
Sunday, November 16, 2008

‘Insight’ Deficit May Explain Denial in Drug Addiction
Sunday, November 16, 2008

Hope for Treating Relapse to Methamphetamine Abuse
Thursday, November 13, 2008

Addiction Treatment Proves Successful in Animal Weight Loss Study
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Gene Therapy Reduces Cocaine Use in Rats
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Cocaine's Effects on Brain Metabolism May Contribute to Abuse
Monday, February 18, 2008

Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners Begins Enrollment for its U.S. Phase II Clinical Trial of CPP-109 in Patients With Cocaine Addiction
Friday, January 25, 2008

Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners Announces Positive Phase II Trial Results for Vigabatrin in the Treatment of Cocaine Addiction
Friday, December 7, 2007

Cocaine Abuse Blunts Sensitivity to Monetary Reward
Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners, Inc. Initiates U.S. Phase II Clinical Trial of CPP-109 in Patients With Cocaine Dependence
Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Brookhaven Lab Chemist to Discuss 'Imaging Drug Addiction' at Harborfields Public Library, June 28
Friday, May 25, 2007

Addiction and the Brain: Are We Hard-Wired to Abuse Drugs?
Monday, February 12, 2007

Altered Perception of Reward in Human Cocaine Addiction
Sunday, October 15, 2006

Developing Radiotracers for Imaging Studies in Addiction
Thursday, September 14, 2006

Catalyst Pharmaceutical Partners Says FDA Has Accepted IND Application for CPP-109 to Treat Cocaine Addiction
Monday, January 3, 2005

New MicroMRI Facility Expands Lab's Brain-Imaging Capabilities
Monday, November 15, 2004

Proposed Addiction Treatment Successful, Safe in Second Small Trial
Monday, November 15, 2004

Results From First Clinical Trial Using GVG to Treat Addiction
Monday, September 22, 2003

Proposed Addiction Treatment Blocks Environment-Triggered Craving
Wednesday, March 7, 2001

Brookhaven Lab Awards License to David Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for Potential Addiction Treatment
Thursday, September 9, 1999

Epilepsy Drug Stops Nicotine's Effects in Animals
Wednesday, December 2, 1998

Epilepsy Drug Found to Stop Cocaine's Effects in Animals
Wednesday, August 5, 1998
Features

Two Intel Semifinalists Completed Research at Brookhaven Lab
Friday, January 18, 2013

BNL Honored for Developing Tracer Used to Image the Brain and Diagnose Cancer
Monday, October 15, 2012

Amanda Pflumm Analyzes Gray Matter
Monday, July 23, 2012

CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric Visits BNL
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Meet Christina Rombola: Working, Published…Rising Freshman
Thursday, July 30, 2009
