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NBD Seminar Series (on-site): Food rewards vs drug rewards: What are the determinants of addiction liability?
Abstract:
Addiction appears in a substantial fraction of users with prolonged drug use (e.g., cocaine =
artificial reward), while the liability of natural rewards (e.g., palatable food) seems low. Natural rewards & drugs have been proven to access the mesolimbic dopamine system. We monitor dopamine concentrations increase in the Nucleus Accumbens (NAc) when ingesting food & upon drug injection.
Venue:
Amphitheatre, Level 2
Duke-NUS Medical School
Host:
Asst Prof Alfred Sun
Principal Investigator
Neuroscience & Behavioural Disorders Programme, Duke-NUS
Contact Person:
Jacqueline Ho (jacqueline.ho@duke-nus.edu.sg)
Neuroscience & Behavioural Disorders Programme, Duke-NUS
Date and Time
28 Apr 2023 @ 15:30 - 28 Apr 2023 @ 16:30
Speaker
Professor Christian Lüscher
Department of Basic Neurosciences
University of Geneva
Christian Lüscher is a Swiss neurobiologist and full professor at the Department of Basic Neurosciences of the University of Geneva. He is also an attending in neurology at the Geneva University Hospital. Lüscher is known for his contributions in the field addiction, particularly for establishing links of causality between the drug-evoked synaptic plasticity and adaptive behavior in mice.