| News Advisory NIDA's Frontiers in Addiction Research: Meeting Explores Willpower, New Technologies in Imaging, and Brain Development |
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| What: | The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, will convene a one-day mini-convention at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. NIDA scientists will present recent findings and discuss future directions in neuroscience. Concepts to be discussed include: how the environment can alter gene function (epigenetics) in addiction and brain development; what determines free will or free won't; and how ground-breaking imaging technologies can reveal gene activation in the living brain, and/or control neurons and behavior. |
| Why: | To bring together scientists to explore the latest research on addiction neuroscience. |
| When: | Friday, November 14, 2008 8:00 a.m. – 6:10 p.m. |
| Where: | Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting Renaissance Washington DC Hotel Grand Ballroom North and Central 999 Ninth Street, NW Washington, DC 20001 |
| More Information: | For more information on the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, please visit www.sfn.org/press2008. To arrange an interview with NIDA staff, please contact NIDA press officers Dorie Hightower or Stephanie Older at 301-443-6245 or e-mail your request to media@nida.nih.gov. Continue reading for all the details on this event. |
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