HIV & Addictions Neuroscience - News

Dr. Martin's grant on "Decision Making and Drug Abuse in the Chicago MACS" was funded through 2011 by NIDA (6/'09)

Dr. Gonzalez's paper, titled "Deficits in complex motor functions, despite no evidence of procedural learning deficits, among HIV+ individuals with history of substance dependence" has been published in Neuropsychology. The manuscript was co-authored with Dr Martin, Dr Vassileva, Mr Amatya, Dr Quartana, and Ms Jacobus (11/'08)

Dr. Martin's grant on “Morphometric Studies of HIV and Drug Abuse: A Pilot” was funded through 2010 by NIDA (5/'08)

Dr. Gonzalez's grant on “Neurocognitive Disinhibition and Cannabis Addiction: A Career Development Award” was funded through 2011 by NIDA (9/'08)

Dr. Vassileva's grant on "Neurocoognitive Impulsivity and HIV Risk Behaviors in Bulgarian Heroin Users" was funded by NIDA for 1 year (5/'08)

Dr. Vassileva's grant on "Varieties of Impulsivity in Opiate and Stimulant Users" was funded by NIDA for 5 years (4/'08)

Dr. Vassileva's article on "Are all drug addicts impulsive? Effects of antisociality and extent of multidrug use on cognitive and motor impulsivity" has been published in Addictive Behaviors (12/'07)

Dr Martin has been asked to join the Scientific Leadership Group for the National NeuroAIDS Tissue Consortium (NNTC), a multisite project sponsored by NIDA and NIMH that supports clinical-neuropathological studies of HIV (9/6/'07)

Dr. Vassileva's paper on "Impaired decision-making in psychopathis heroin addicts" was quoted by the Director of NIDA, Nora Volkow, in her NIDA Director's report to the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse (5/'07)

Dr. Gonzalez gave a presentation on Cannabis and Brain Functioning at the Chicago-Read Mental Health Center (4/26/'07)

Dr. Gonzalez presented a lecture on Neuropsychological Effects of Substance Use and Addiction for medical students as part of the "Brain and Behavior" course (4/12/'07)

Dr. Martin hosted a symposium on "Learning and Memory Function in HIV-1 Disease:Frontostriatal & Medial Temporal Systems" at the 35th Annual INS Meeting in Portland, OR (2/9/'07)

Dr. Gonzalez presented "Procedural Learning among HIV+ and HIV- Individuals with Substance Dependence" at the 35th Annual INS Meeting in Portland, OR (2/9/'07)

Dr. Gonzalez's article on "Executive Functions Among Individuals with Methamphetamine or Alcohol as Drugs of Choice: Preliminary Observations" was published in the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology (2/'07)

Recruitment for the study "Cognitive Neuropsychology of HIV and Drug Abuse" (PREACH II) started (1/'07)

Dr. Martin was appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology (9/'06)

Preach II was funded for 5 years (8/'06)

Dr. Martin was a featured speaker at the NIDA Science Meeting on "Drug Abuse & HIV/AIDS: The Complexities of Linked Epidemics - Meeting Agenda" at the National Press Club. She presented the "Effects of HIV and Drug Abuse on Executive Brain Function: The Example of Decision-Making" (11/29/'05)

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