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Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction

Thu, November 7, 2019
Dinner Program
Judy Grisel
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Judith Grisel, professor of psychology and neuroscience at Bucknell University, began using recreational drugs when she was 13 and ended up in a treatment center at 23. She went on to a research career studying the neuroscience of substance use disorders, and eventually to write a recent New York Times bestseller Never Enough: The Neuroscience and Experience of Addiction. Her talk will illustrate the neural changes that underlie the development substance use disorders and make recovery so challenging.

Judith Grisel, Ph.D., is an internationally recognized behavioral neuroscientist and a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Bucknell University with expertise in pharmacology and genetics. Her research focuses on determining root causes of drug addiction. She is recognized as a distinguished mentor by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute for her collaboration in this research with undergraduate students, has been the recipient of numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health, and is the author of a New York Times Bestseller and NB Book of the Month.

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