Revised September 2012
NIDA’s Neuroscience Consortium organized the 10th annual Frontiers in Addiction Research Mini-Convention held at the 2011 Society for Neuroscience Meeting on November 11, 2011, in Washington, DC. The mini-convention included sessions on autism, addiction, and the role of the MeCP2 gene in mediating response to drugs; synapse organization, and plasticity and its relationship to drug addiction; using optogenetics to shed light on the neural mechanisms of addiction; and the neurobiology of behavioral and emotional regulation/dysregulation.
Video Interviews
Session Summaries
Featured Publication
Drugs, Brains, and Behavior - The Science of Addiction
As a result of scientific research, we know that addiction is a disease that affects both brain and behavior.