Tag: Alcoholism
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Jon Pierce-Shimomura, UT Austin – Treating Alcoholism with Worm Experiments
Academic research sometimes takes scientists into unforeseen places. Today on The Academic Minute, Jon Pierce-Shimomura, a professor at The University of Texas at Austin, discusses his research aimed at treating alcoholism through the intoxication of worms. Jon Pierce-Shimomura, assistant professor in the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research at The University of Texas at…
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Steven Schandler, Chapman University – The Genetics of Addiction
The effects of alcoholism and addiction reach far beyond the person afflicted with the disease. Steven Schandler, a senior professor in the department of psychology at the Crean College of Health and Behavioral Sciences, discusses the factors that influence ACOAs or adult children of alcoholics. Completing his fourth decade at Chapman University, Steven Schandler is…