Human Behavioral Pharmacology Lab

What if you could predict, and possibly prevent, impulsive and addictive behaviors such as drug and alcohol addiction, binge eating/obesity, and problem gambling?

We conducted a study to test these questions for ourselves. Read a quick blog post with an overview of what we found!

Take a look at the post here: http://hbpl.uchicago.edu/what-are-we-doing/2019/11/13/what-if-you-could-predict-and-possibly-prevent-impulsive-and-addictive-behaviors-such-as-drug-and-alcohol-addiction-binge-eatingobesity-and-problem-gamblinghttp://hbpl.uchicago.edu/what-are-we-doing/2019/11/13/what-if-you-could-predict-and-possibly-prevent-impulsive-and-addictive-behaviors-such-as-drug-and-alcohol-addiction-binge-eatingobesity-and-problem-gambling

What if you could predict, and possibly prevent, impulsive and addictive behaviors such as drug and alcohol addiction, binge eating/obesity, and problem gambling? — The Human Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory This summary, written by Kaela Allen, is based on a paper published from our lab (available online): Weafer, J, NA Crane, SM Gorka, KL Phan, H de Wit (2019). Neural correlates of inhibition and reward are negatively associated. NeuroImage, 196:188-194. PMID: 30974242