Research Groups

Our preclinical, translational, and clinical scientists perform research to learn more about addictive disorders. Our research findings help us develop our patient services. In this way, we improve the lives of people with addictive disorders.

    • Psychosocial neuroimmune addiction
  • CBD Research Program
    • Understanding the effects of CBD on the brain, and clinical trials of CBD formulations as a pharmacological treatment for opioid use disorder
    • Neuropsychological assessments and magnetic resonance imaging measures of brain structure and function
    • Neuropeptides and their receptors, opiate receptor signal transduction, and narcotic addiction
    • Genetics of neuropsychiatric disease
    • Computational Psychiatry Unit
    • Molecular neuropsychopharmacology
    • Molecular Neuropsychopharmacology
    • Behavioral and molecular neuroscience
    • Chromatin regulatory mechanisms of neural plasticity and disease
    • Neuropsychoimaging of Addiction and Related Conditions Research Program
    • Molecular psychiatry
    • Motivational and Affective Psychopathology
    • Neural and Immune mechanisms of psychiatric illness
    • Brain epigenetics
    • Membrane excitability and disease
    • Psychosocial Processes in Addiction
    • Cellular neuropharmacology