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Available Presentation Topics

Stephen L. Boehm, PhD

  • Adolescents and alcohol
  • Binge alcohol drinking
  • Brain response to alcohol

Christopher C. Lapish, PhD

  • Brain mechanisms of decision making
  • The impact of alcohol on decision making
  • How differences in decision making predict drinking

Woody Hopf, PhD

  • A frank talk about the benefits and costs of drinking alcohol
  • What drives compulsive addiction for alcohol, and why it matters for empathy
  • Reading the body to help improve treatment and strengthen brain-behavior relationships

Marian L. Logrip, PhD

  • Stress effects on alcohol drinking
  • Sex differences in alcohol use
  • How the brain adapts to alcohol

John I. Nurnberger, MD, PhD

  • Genetics of alcohol use disorder
  • Psychiatric disorders in relatives of people with alcohol use disorder
  • Use of polygenic scores in assessing risk for alcohol use disorder

Melissa A. Cyders, PhD

  • Impulsivity and addiction
  • Alcohol use in midlife
  • How stigma impacts alcohol and substance use disorder treatment

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