The NeuroChoice Initiative Talks:
2023
April 28, 2023
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Symposium: Advancing Addiction Science and Policy
10:00AM-4:00PM PST
Stanford Neurosciences Building E241
For more details and event schedule, view and download the flyer or scan QR code.
2022
December 6, 2022 |
Dr. Eric Stice 4:00-5:00PM PST “Neural vulnerability factors that predict weight gain and plasticity that occurs in response to eating” View Meeting Zoom Recording |
October 4, 2022 |
Leili Mortazavi 4:00-5:00PM PST “Translational influence of anterior insula to nucleus accumbens projections on stimulant drug relapse” View Meeting Zoom Recording |
September 6, 2022 |
Daniel McCalley 4:00-5:00PM PST “Accelerating the precision of neuromodulation techniques for Alcohol Use Disorder” View Meeting Zoom Recording |
June 7, 2022 |
Dr. Anna Konova 4:00-5:00PM PST “Addiction states as dynamic changes in valuation” View Meeting Zoom Recording |
May 3, 2022 |
Dr. Gregory L. Sahlem 4:00-5:00PM PST “Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Substance Use Disorders: From Bench to Beside and Back again” View Meeting Zoom Recording |
March 1, 2022 |
Dr. Kelly MacNiven 4:00-5:00PM PST “Using ConNAcctome neural markers to predict relapse to stimulant use” View Meeting Zoom Recording |
February 1, 2022 |
Dr. Laura Michele Hack 4:00-5:00PM PST “Ketamine Acutely Modulates Brain-Behavior States in Healthy Volunteers” View Meeting Zoom Recording |
January 4, 2022 |
Drs. Rob Malenka, Brian Knutson, Keith Humphreys 4:00-5:00PM PST “What has Neurochoice accomplished? Past, present, and future” (w/ opening remarks + group discussion) View Meeting Zoom Recording |
2021
December 7, 2021 |
Dr. Ahmani Hariri 4:00-5:00PM PST “Biosensor technology for simultaneously measuring multiple Neuromodulators –in real-time” View Meeting Zoom Recording |
November 2, 2021 |
Dr. Boris Heifetz 4:00-5:00PM PST “Deconstructing MDMA and ketamine to make better medicine” View Meeting Zoom Recording |
October 21, 2021 |
Stanford Wu Tsai Neurosciences / Neurochoice Symposium 9:00AM-6:00PM PST “The addiction epidemic from neuroscience to policy” Hybrid meeting registration at: https://neuroscience.stanford.edu/events/series/2021-symposium |
September 7, 2021 |
Dr. Yanjun Sun 4:00-5:00PM PST “Long-term hippocampal dynamics for drug-associated environmental contexts” |
July 6, 2021 |
Dr. Claudia Padula 4:00-5:00PM PST “Negative emotionality and reward circuitry markers of brain function improve prediction of treatment outcomes in Alcohol Use Disorder” View Meeting Zoom Recording |
June 8, 2021 |
Dr. Keith Humphreys, Ph.D, Dr. Windy McNerney, Ph.D, Dr. Michael Ostacher, M.D. 4:00-5:00PM PST Discussant: Dr. Anna Lembke, M.D. Panel discussion on “Teaching the Neuroscience of Addiction: What We’ve learned.” View Meeting Zoom Recording |
May 4, 2021 |
Dr. Sarah Yip 4:00-5:00PM PST “Considerations for Brain-based Prediction of Clinical Outcomes in Addiction” View Meeting Zoom Recording |
April 6, 2021 |
Dr. Mathew Pomrenze 4:00-5:00PM PST “Dynorphin Circuits for Opioid Withdrawal” View Meeting Zoom Recording |
March 2, 2021 |
Dr. Susan Tapert, Professor, UCSD and Chief of Psychology, VA San Diego Healthcare System 4:00-5:00PM PST “Alcohol and the Adolescent Brain” |
February 2, 2021 |
Dr. Xiaoke Chen, Dept. of Biology, Stanford U. 4:00-5:00PM PST “Functional and Molecular Architecture of Descending Pain Modulation Pathways.” View Meeting Zoom Recording |
January 5, 2021 |
Dr. Isaac Kauvar, Postdoctoral fellow, Stanford U. (Stanford Autonomous Agents Lab) 4:00PM-5:00PM PST “Fragmenting the self: Brainwide Recording and the Neurobiology of Dissociation” |
2020
December 1, 2020 |
Dr. Brandon Bentzley and Dr. Neir Eshel, Dept of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford U. 4:00-5:00PM PST “The Neuroeconomics of Mesolimbic Dopamine” |
November 3, 2020 |
Dr. Ivan Soltesz, Professor and Vice Chair, Neurosurgery, Stanford U. 4:00-5:00PM PST “Cannabinoid signaling in Health and Disease.” View Meeting Zoom Recording |
October 6, 2020 |
Dr. Warren Bickel, Psychology, Virginia Tech University 4:00-6:00PM PST Lokey Stem Cell Building, Rm G1002 View Meeting Zoom Recording |
September 1, 2020 |
Dr. William Giardino, de Lecea Lab, Psychiatry, Stanford U. 4:00-6:00PM PST Lokey Stem Cell Building, Rm G1002 |
February 4, 2020 |
Dr. Casey Harrison Halpern, Halpern-Malenka Lab, Psychiatry, Stanford U. 4:00-6:00PM PST Lokey Stem Cell Building, Rm G1002 |
January 7, 2020 |
Dr. Brian Knutson, Spanlab & NeuroChoice, Psychology & Neuroscience, Stanford U. 4:00-6:00PM PST Lokey Stem Cell Building, Rm G1002 |
2019
December 3, 2019 |
Dr. Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, Pediatrics, Stanford U. 4:00-6:00PM PST “The Vaping Phenomenon: What it is, why it happened, and what we can do about it” Lokey Stem Cell Building, Rm G1161 |
November 5, 2019 |
Dr. Tommaso Di Ianni, postdoc for Dr. Raag Airan, Anesthesiology, Stanford U. 4:00-6:00PM PST “Probing the action of psychostimulant drugs with localized ultrasonic drug uncaging” Lokey Stem Cell Building, Rm G1161 |