| Psychiatry Grand Rounds | | | « back to September calendar | Bryon Adinoff, M.D. | | | | | | | Dr. Adinoff is Professor and Distinguished Professorship of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He is also the Chief of the Division on Addictions at the UT Southwestern Medical Center, and a staff psychiatrist at the VA North Texas Health Care System. Dr. Adinoff is the Principle Investigator of the Texas Node of the NIDA-funded Clinical Trials Network, a nationwide infrastructure designed to develop and assess new pharmacological and psychosocial treatments for substance use disorders. He receives funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, and Department of Veterans Affairs. He has published over 80 articles, reviews, and book chapters on the biology and treatment of addiction, with a focus on neuroendocrine and neurobiologic disruptions following chronic cocaine or alcohol use.
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subjects,
2) Identify objective measures to assess stress response systems, and
3) Describe the potential clinical significance of disruptions in stress response
to relapse. | |
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