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SNO Distinguished Lecture Series: April 29, 2007

The SNO Distinguished Lecture for Spring 2007 was be presented by Anna Rose Childress of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and the Penn/VA Addiction Research Center. Her talk, entitled, "Dark chocolate, hot sex and cheap cocaine: Brain imaging of desire states, and their inhibition, in addiction", was held Friday, April 27 at 11:00 AM in the Gifford Auditorium in HBC on the SU campus. You can download a flyer for the talk here.

As preparation for Dr. Childress' talk, we hosted a journal club Monday, April 23rd at 11:30-12:30 AM in the Allport Room (530C) Huntington Hall on the SU campus. We had two readings for this journal club:

Childress, A.R., Franklin, T.R., Listerud, J., & O'Brien, C.P. (2002). Neuroimaging of cocaine craving states: Cessation, stimulant administration, and drug cue paradigms", In, K.L. Davis, D. Charney, J.T. Coyle, and C. Nemeroff (Eds), Neuropsychopharmacology: The Fifth Generation of Progress, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, pp. 1575-1590. [pdf]
Volkow, N.D., Wang, G.J., Telang, F., Fowler, J.S., Logan, J., Childress, A.R., Jayne, M., Ma, Y., and Wong, C. (2006). Cocaine cues and dopamine in dorsal striatum: mechanism of craving in cocaine addiction, Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 6583-8. [pdf]