Wayne State University School of Medicine

Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences

Chairman's Grand Rounds

Date: Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022

Time: 1-2pm

Venue: Two options - Zoom Conference and/or in-person Margherio - Mazurek Education Commons (1st Floor) Gordon H. Scott Hall of Basic Medical Sciences, 540 E. Canfield St., Detroit, MI 48201

Speaker:

Christopher W. Cowan, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair

Dept. of Neuroscience

William E. Murray SmartState Endowed Chair 

Medical University of South Carolina

No Commercial Relationships

TOPIC:

"Molecular Mechanisms Regulating Relapse Vulnerability in Substance Use Disorder"

Objectives:

1.  Describe multiple preclinical tests for relapse-associated behaviors. 

2.  Discuss ways in which epigenetic factors can influence relapse vulnerability. 

3.  Describe brain circuits required for drug-cue reactivity and relapse in preclinical models of substance use disorder.

4.  Identify several molecules in the brain that control drug-cue reactivity.