UNC investigator, Bryan Roth, will give a Presidential Special Lecture entitled “From Salvia Divinorum to LSD—Toward a Molecular Understanding of Psychoactive Drug Actions” at the 2018 meeting of the Society for Neuroscience.

Jason Stein and Hyejung Won recently published an article in Cell on the dynamic landscape of open chromatin during human neurogenesis.

In a paper published in Cell, UNC School of Medicine researchers led by Bryan Roth, MD, PhD, show how to activate only one kind of brain receptor vital for pain relief. This receptor is not involved in addiction or respiratory depression that leads to death – the most severe side effects of opioid use.