Stark Neurosciences Research Institute faculty have a wide range of research programs focused on the cellular, molecular and behavioral correlates of addiction to alcohol, cannabis, methamphetamine, nicotine, opiates and food. Investigators are interested in the mechanisms and consequences of alcoholism, drug addiction and obesity.
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism-funded Indiana Alcohol Research Center, which supports thematic research in the genetic determinants of alcoholism, is comprised of both Stark Neurosciences Research Institute investigators and collaborators from the Addictions Neuroscience Graduate Program, offered through the IUPUI Purdue School of Science.
Stark Neurosciences Research Institute research areas include, but are not limited to, behavioral pharmacology, electrophysiology, microdialysis, genetics, novel human interventions, alcohol administration paradigms (both preclinical and human) and human behavioral and neuroimaging studies.
