Author Archives: Diana Lotito

Robinson: ‘Adolescent brain is different’ — TalkItOut video Dr. Donita Robinson, associate professor at UNC’s Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, discusses how the adolescent brain differs from the adult brain, and how alcohol has a greater effect on the still-developing brain. The video was produced as part of the State...

How do antidepressants trigger fear and anxiety? “Researchers map the anxiety circuit in the brain and use a compound to limit fearful behavior — an acute side effect of commonly prescribed SSRI antidepressants. …” From Science Daily.

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Governor McCrory’s Task Force Gets Report on the Effects of Underage Drinking Duke Researcher: “It becomes the job of responsible adults in kids’ lives to help provide the restraint that their own brains often can’t.” Researchers from Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill presented their report on the effects of alcohol...

Researchers at University of North Carolina School of Medicine and North Carolina Central University have been awarded $7.5 million to continue an ongoing collaboration between the institutions aimed at understanding and reducing alcohol-related pathologies among African-Americans. The award, from National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) of the National...

Abigail Agoglia receives NRSA click to enlarge Abigail Agoglia from the Hodge lab received an NRSA from NIAAA and the title is “Assessing the adolescent PFC proteome for mechanisms of escalated alcohol self-administration in adulthood.”

Kristen Pleil received K99 Award from NIAAA

On Sept 9, 2014, the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill joined organizations all over the world in helping to increase awareness of damage caused by prenatal alcohol exposure. At 9:09 a.m. the Bowles Center scientists displayed a large Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder...