UI researcher to study effect of alcohol on the brain
Daniel O'Leary, a UI professor of psychiatry, received a five-year, $2.6 million grant to study brain development in adolescents with genetic risk factors for alcoholism. The grant is provided by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, according to a news release.
The research will employ an MRI to determine whether the brain structure and function of adolescents with inherited risk factors for developing alcohol problems differ from those of adolescents without risk factors, the release said.
Collaborating researchers include Samuel Kuperman, professor of psychiatry, John Kramer, associate research scientist, and members of the Collaborative Studies on Genetics in Alcoholism project at UI. That group is a national research initiative directed at identifying the genes that create vulnerability to alcoholism, according to the release.
— by Alicia Kramme
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