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Mague: Research has shown: after you take away ethanol from rats, there is a two week problem with depression, possible relapse #NCRGWebinar

31 Jan 2014

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Mague: When it comes to withdrawl and depression symptoms, both the prefrontal cortex and amygdala are implicated in activation #NCRGWebinar

31 Jan 2014

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Mague: Animal models have been used to understand how often they'll take drugs or get rewards. Impulsivity is a risk factor #NCRGWebinar

31 Jan 2014

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Mague: When rewards happen with gambling/drug use, a neuron will fire...#NCRGWebinar (1/2)

31 Jan 2014

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Mague has used specialized animal models to understand the addiction cycle. #NCRGWebinar

31 Jan 2014

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Dr. Sprow just kicked it over to Dr. Mague, who is talking about the #Addiction cycle #NCRGWebinar

31 Jan 2014

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Sprow: animal models can be difficult to use to understand many characteristics of co-occuring disorders. Neurobiology is key.#NCRGWebinar

31 Jan 2014

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BTW, how much does the human brain weigh? 3 pounds, and has 100 billion brain cells! #NCRGWebinar

31 Jan 2014

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Striking similarities of fMRI studies between mood and alcohol use disorder. #NCRGWebinar http://t.co/oqiR6qjDCw

31 Jan 2014

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Right now, our leaders are showing us some really great fMRI brain images... we wish we could show these to you through Twitter #NCRGWebinar

31 Jan 2014

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Sprow: We should start looking at @NIMHgov's Research Domain Criteria to look at the underlying brain circuits for disorders #NCRGWebinar

31 Jan 2014

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Sprow; For a healthy brain, all of the connections need to be working properly, even if the pieces are there #NCRGWebinar

31 Jan 2014

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Sprow: Research shows that the whole of the brain is greater than the sum of its parts (1/2) #NCRGWebinar

31 Jan 2014

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RT @preventionlane: Research shows that #alcohol use & #gambling disorders have an incredible degree of comorbidity (occurring together) …

31 Jan 2014

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Sprow: How do we understand the brain and see which regions are important in both alcohol use and gambling disorder? #NCRGWebinar

31 Jan 2014

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Sprow: evidence suggests a common denominator that underlines the connection between alcohol use disorder & gambling disorder #NCRGWebinar

31 Jan 2014

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Sprow: the co-occurance between alcohol abuse and gambling disorder isn't chance - it is shown in many research studies #NCRGWebinar

31 Jan 2014

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Sprow: with various #DSM diagnosis, sometimes you have overlapping symptoms & hard to determine the main issue for treatment #NCRGWebinar

31 Jan 2014

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The fact that the #DSM standardizes psychiatric diagnosis is both a pro and a con when addressing mental health #NCRGWebinar

31 Jan 2014

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Sprow: The traditional way that we've diagnosed diseases is through the #DSM5 #NCRGWebinar

31 Jan 2014

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Dzirasa: How do we define disease? Is overlapping circuitry the key to co-occuring treatment disorders? #NCRGWebinar

31 Jan 2014

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Dzirasa: When we talk about the brain, every process is performed in circuits. Addiction, or other issues, are a result of circuit problems

31 Jan 2014

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Dr. Dzirasa: Every process we experience, the smell of coffee in the morning to the relationships that we have, is in the brain #NCRGwebinar

31 Jan 2014

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Christine Reilly, @theNCRG's senior research director, is introducing Drs. Dzirasa, Mague and Sprow from @DukeBrain #NCRGWebinar

31 Jan 2014

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We also have 2 more #NCRGWebinars scheduled for 2014. You can register for them today! ow.ly/t9ia2

31 Jan 2014

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