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| Lecture Series Set on Addictions-Related Topics |
Date: March 17, 2008 Contact: Kathleen Weaver Phone: (716) 887-2585 Fax: (716) 887-2252 |
| BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The University at Buffalo’s Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) is presenting a spring seminar series on addictions-related topics featuring national experts beginning on April 4.
The three-part series is free, open to the public, and held on designated Fridays from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. on the first floor of 1021 Main Street, on the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus downtown. The opening presentation by Jeanette Norris, Ph.D. on Apr. 4 is entitled “Thinking About Sex: Cognitive Mediation of Alcohol’s Effects on Women’s Sexual Decisions.” Norris is a senior research scientist at the University of Washington’s Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute. Her research is focused on how alcohol consumption influences cognitive mechanisms associated with sexual decision making, as well as sexual assault resistance and perpetration. She is a co-recipient of the Ira and Harriet Reiss Theory Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality for the publication “Cognitive Mediation of Women’s Sexual Decision Making: The Influence of Alcohol, Contextual Factors, and Background Variables” which was published in the Annual Review of Sex Research. On Apr. 25, Sara Jo Nixon, Ph.D. will present “Nicotine and Drugs: What Drives the Affair?” Nixon is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine at the University of Florida, Gainesville. She holds a joint appointment as professor in the Department of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Her current research is focused on neurocognition, nicotine and polysubstance abuse. The series closes on May 9 with a presentation on “The Role of Dynorphin/Kappa Opioid Receptor in the Pathophysiology of Cocaine Addiction” by Toni S. Shippenberg, Ph.D. Shippenberg is chief of the Integrative Neuroscience Section of the Behavioral Neuroscience Branch in the Intramural Research Program at the National Institute on Drug Abuse in Bethesda, Md. Over the last 10 to 15 years, she has studied the role of dynorphin neurotransmission and kappa-opioid receptor activation in mediating drug dependence toward psychostimulants and opiates. She is an editor of highly influential journals including Neuropsychopharmacology, Journal of Neuroscience, and Journal of Psychopharmacology. For more information about the seminars contact RIA at 716-887-2566. The Research Institute on Addictions has been a national leader in the study of addictions since 1970 and a research center of the University at Buffalo since 1999. The University at Buffalo is a premier research-intensive public university, a flagship institution in the State University of New York system and its largest and most comprehensive campus. UB’s more than 28,000 students pursue their academic interests through more than 300 undergraduate, graduate and professional degree programs. Founded in 1846, the University at Buffalo is a member of the Association of American Universities. |
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