Research from the lab of Bryan K Yamamoto, PhD, over the last 27 years has focused on how drugs of abuse affect the neurochemistry of brain. Research in this laboratory has been funded continuously by the National Institutes of Health since 1987.
The laboratory has studied how amphetamines and their interaction with stress and the immune system alter the blood-brain barrier, brain neurochemistry, and produce damage to regions of the brain that are critically involved in controlling movement and memory processes.