Our group now has twitter! Follow Neuroscience of Addiction Lab for updates on publications and more. We study how the brain in interaction with the environment influences trajectories of substance use and addiction🧠

We are looking for participants! One of our current studies specifically focuses on understanding how the developing brain is associated with both risk and resilience to addiction. uva.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1M…

Our lab has a new website! Check out our new website here: nofaresearch.com

PhD candidate Karis Colyer-Patel testing out our olfactory machine experiment! In one of our current neuroimaging projects, we are interested in how the brain responds to cannabis scents in for example dependent users compared to recreational users and non-using controls.

Is #NitrousOxide addictive? Laughing gas is a widely used recreational drug, but what do we know about the risks or potential for dependence? Today Ian Hamilton blogs a recent review in Addiction Journal by Sammie Back, @KroonEmese et al nationalelfservice.net/?p=186542

Publication alert! This narrative review provides an update of our knowledge on the relation between heavy cannabis use and cannabis use disorder (CUD) and the brain based on (f)MRI studies conducted in the past 5 years. doi.org/10.1007/s40429…

This week, PhD candidate Christophe_Romein gave a lecture about adolescent brain development in the context of risk and resilience to addiction, in the Clinical Psychology MSc program as well. Erasmus University ESSB_Erasmus

Are you a PhD student within the brain and cognition domain? Join the PhD winter conference this December at Utrecht University !