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CDART News
Workshop on Statistical Methods in Drug Abuse and Health-Related Research - 2009-01-15 00:00:00 | CDART will be hosting a Workshop on Statistical Methods in Drug Abuse and Health-Related Reseach on Wednesday, October 29, 2008. The workshop is a satellite conference of the Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) conference.
| CDART Faculty Recieving University Research Professorships - 2008-09-26 00:00:00 | Three CDART faculty received University Research Professorships in 2006, 2007 and 2008
- Dr. Linda Dwoskin (Training Director of CDART)
- Dr. Michael Bardo (Director of CDART)
- Dr. Richard Kryscio (Statistics Director of CDART)
| CDART faculty received prestigious awards from the Society for Prevention Research - 2008-09-26 00:00:00 | In 2005, the Presidential Award was given to Dr. Richard Clayton in honor of his lifetime achievement to the field of prevention science. Clayton served Center Director from 1987-2003, and he continues to serve in CDART as Senior Science Scholar. Clayton also served as Chair of the Tobacco Etiology Research Network (TERN), a highly interactive network of both senior and junior scientists from varying levels of analysis, including basic and applied domains, all involved in studying the etiology of tobacco dependence. As both the Center Director and TERN Chair, Clayton has exemplified how to conduct translational and cross-cutting interdisciplinary research aimed at the prevention of drug abuse among adolescents.
In 2007, the Prevention Science Award was given to Dr. Phil Palmgreen, Dr. Lewis Donohew, Dr. Nancy Grant Harrington, and Dr. Elizabeth Lorch. During the past twenty years, this group of CDART-affiliated researchers has worked together to develop and test the SENsation TARgeting or SENTAR model, which applies message-based communication theories and mass communication strategies to the development of public health campaigns directed at high sensation-seeking adolescents. Their ground-breaking work has been a prototype for how to translate theory-driven laboratory findings into effective drug abuse prevention interventions. In addition to their outstanding contributions to the science of drug abuse prevention, this group has had a profound effect on drug abuse policy at the national level through the application of their model to the national anti-drug campaign conducted by the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP). Their impact on the prevention field has been wide ranging, with recent applications of the SENTAR model to campaigns focused on unsafe sex, poor eating habits, and seat belt use.
| Dr. Bardo makes a presentation entitled “Connection between neurobiology and Drug Abuse Prevention" - 2008-09-26 00:00:00 | Dr. Michael Bardo makes a presentation entitled “Connection between neurobiology and Drug Abuse Prevention” at:
The Center for Child and Family at Duke University
Reducing Substance Use Initiation among Adolescents:
Bringing Science Down to Earth
October 13-14, 2008
Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University
For more information on conference, visit: http://www.childandfamilypolicy.duke.edu/calendar/Conferences/substanceabuse/agenda.html
| CDART Trainee Research Forum: 2008-2009 Fall and Spring Semesters - 2008-09-03 00:00:00 | Room COMOB 104 Behavioral Sciences Building
12:00 – 1:00 PM
Click here to download the schedule
| Workshop on Statistical Methods in Drug Abuse and Health-Related Research - 2008-08-11 00:00:00 | CDART will be hosting a Workshop on Statistical Methods in Drug Abuse and Health-Related Reseach on Wednesday, October 29, 2008. The workshop is a satellite conference of the Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) conference.
| CDART Pilot Grant Announcement - 2007-12-14 00:00:00 | Pilot Project Grant Application Notice
Individual Differences in Drug Abuse Vulnerability and Prevention of Drug Abuse
Sponsoring Organization: Center for Drug Abuse Research Translation (CDART) at the University of Kentucky (funded by National Institute on Drug Abuse)
Center Scope: A central mission of CDART is to facilitate the translation of research findings between basic and prevention sciences using a multidisciplinary approach. The primary scientific mission of CDART is to determine how environmental context affects inter- and intra-individual differences important in drug abuse vulnerability employing basic research using both animal models and human subjects. Ongoing research has concentrated on individual differences in reward seeking and behavioral inhibition as predictors of drug abuse vulnerability. A major goal is to understand how environmental context and media messages that differ in sensation value affect drug abuse vulnerability in high and low sensation seekers. In the long-term, CDART aims to design a biologically-relevant prevention intervention that can be evaluated in the field.
Pilot project applications are invited in any of the following areas: individual differences in the effects of drugs of abuse, drug abuse vulnerability and prevention of drug abuse, treatment of drug abuse, secondary analysis of drug abuse data, or data analysis methodology encountered in drug abuse research. Applications for pilot projects that promote multidisciplinary approaches and show high potential for future funding are especially encouraged and will be given preference.
Eligibility Requirements: Applications may be submitted by any University of Kentucky faculty or research staff whose primary appointment is in a University of Kentucky academic unit.
Applications: Applications are limited to 5 pages, plus an abstract, biosketch, budget, budget justification and reference section, all of which must be prepared using the PHS 398 research grant application instructions (http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/phs398/ phs398.html).
Funds Available: CDART intends to fund two one-year pilot project proposals for a one-time, twelve-month award of $20,000 each. Awards shall be deferred pending approval by appropriate University committees (e.g., IACUC, IRB). Budgets must meet the guidelines of the UK Got Grants program; see http://www.research.uky.edu/faculty/gotgrantsbrochure.pdf
Submission Deadline and Review: The deadline to apply for a pilot project grant is February 25, 2008. Pilot projects will undergo competitive, confidential, peer review by members of a CDART Review Committee.
Please submit electronically PHS 398 research grant application to: Kimberly Reeder, CDART, University of Kentucky (phone: 859-257-2607; email: ksreed0@uky.edu).
Questions regarding the application may be addressed to: Linda P. Dwoskin, Ph.D. CDART Training Coordinator (phone: 859-257-4743, email: ldwoskin@email.uky.edu).
For more information about CDART, please view our website: http://www.uky.edu/research/cdart
| CDART Research Forum List for Spring 2008 - 2007-12-07 00:00:00 | CDART RESEARCH FORUM SPEAKERS AND TOPICS
SPRING SEMESTER 2008
March 3, 2008 -- Rajkumar J. Sevak from Behavioral Science. The title of his presentation is:
“Modulation of dopamine clearance and the behavioral effects of dopaminergic drugs in rats with altered insulin status".
April 7, 2008 – Greg Smith from Psychology. The title of his presentation is:
"The Acquired Preparedness Model of Risk for Alcohol Use."
| CDART Research Forum List for Fall 2007 - 2007-09-03 00:00:00 | CDART RESEARCH FORUM SPEAKERS AND TOPICS
FALL SEMESTER 2007
September 12, 2007 -- Rick Crosby, from Public Health. The title of his presentation is:
"Evaluation of a Lay Health Advisor Model Risk-Reduction Intervention for Promoting Safer Sex Among Heterosexual African American Men Newly Diagnosed with an STD: A Randomized Controlled Trial".
October 1, 2007 -- Mark Fillmore from Psychology. The title of his presentation is:
“Alcohol, Impulsivity, and Reckless Driving: Understanding the Risk Factors”.
November 6, 2006 – Rajkumar J. Sevak from Behavioral Science. The title of his presentation is:
“Modulation of dopamine clearance and the behavioral effects of dopaminergic drugs in rats with altered insulin status".
December 4, 2006 – Susan Barron from Psychology. The title of her presentation is:
“Ways to reduce alcohol's effects on brain and behavior”.
| Seminar Presentations - 2007-03-23 00:00:00 | Friday, April 20th, 2007: Anna Rose Childress, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
Title of Talk:
“DARK Chocolate, Hot Sex, and Cheap Cocaine: Imaging Desire States, and their Inhibition in Addiction”
Abstract:
Cues that reliably predict the arrival of a rewarding drug such as cocaine can trigger a number of cocaine-related signs and symptoms (heart-pounding, ‘cocaine taste’, etc.) and profound appetitive desire, or “craving” for the drug. As this desire (“GO!”) state may lead to relapse during drug addition therapy, knowing its brain substrates is critical in the development of brain-targeted interventions. Using neuroimaging techniques we, and others, have demonstrated limbic (amygdala, ventral striatum/pallidum, anterior cingulate, orbitofrontal cortex, insula, etc.) activation in response to drug cues. Our most recent work shows that the reward circuitry can be triggered by drug cues that are extremely brief — even outside awareness. Complementary to the study of “GO!” substrates is the study of their modulators: the brain’s “STOP1” circuitry. Recently discovered defects in this “STOP” circuitry in the brains of substance-abuse patients may help explain why some are particularly vulnerable to the pull of strong “GO!” states and why the great majority of humans don’t become addicted to natural rewards (e.g., food or sex) or drugs of abuse.
Meeting Place: MN 363 UKMC
Time: 12:00 – 1:30pm
Frinday, March 30th, 2007: Antoine Bechara, Ph.D. , Associate Professor of Neurology, University of Iowa in the Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA.
Dr. Bechara’s research focuses on understanding the neural processes underlying decision-making in normal and brain-damaged patients with a focus on substance addiction, and smoking. He is also interested in interdisciplinary research between the fields of neuroscience, management, marketing, and economics. He developed of the Iowa Gambling Task for those of you who have heard of it.
Meeting Place WT Young Auditorium
Time 1:30 -3:00
| CDART Research Seminar Series 2007 Spring Semester - 2007-02-05 00:00:00 | CDART RESEARCH FORUM SPEAKERS AND TOPICS
SPRING SEMESTER 2007
March 5, 2007 -- Rick Zimmerman from the Department of Communication will be speaking. The title of his presentation is:
“Alcohol and other Substance Use and Sexual Risk-taking”
March 26 – Joe Conigliaro from the Medical Center will be speaking. The title of his presentation is:
"Designing interactive computer programs to motivate heavy drinkers to reduce alcohol intake."
The forums are held in 104 in the Department of Behavioral Sciences. The building is located between University Drive and VA Drive, behind the Health Sciences Research Building. The forums begin at noon and lunch is provided.
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