Aims

To support the free and open dissemination of research findings and information on alcoholism and alcohol-related problems. To encourage open access to peer-reviewed articles free for all to view.

For full versions of posted research articles readers are encouraged to email requests for "electronic reprints" (text file, PDF files, FAX copies) to the corresponding or lead author, who is highlighted in the posting.

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Honors & Awards
NIH Fellowships
Center Newsletter Volume 7 Issue 1 Spring 2008

The following students won the prestigious National Research Award for Predoctoral Fellows from The National Institutes of Health (NIH). Since the year 2000, 33 graduate students at The University of Texas at Austin have won this highly competitive award. We are proud to say that 19 of those 33 students have studied with Waggoner Center faculty.

Brian Bernier, (Morikawa Lab)
Ethanol Action on Glutamate Induced Pause in Dopamine Neurons

Jennifer Carrillo, (Gonzales Lab)
Sensory Stimuli of Ethanol Elicits Dopamine Signals in the Accumbens Core

M. Alexander Kenaston, (Mills Lab)
Biomedical Regulation of Mitochondrial Uncoupling Protein 3

Monica Maldonado, (Jones Lab)
Rehabilitative Training Effect on Cell Proliferation after Cortical Damage

Cynthia Stappenbeck, (Fromme Lab)
Alcohol, Emotion Regulation, and Escalation of Aggression during Dating Conflict

Reagan Wetherill, (Fromme Lab)
The Etiology of Fragmentary Blackouts: Memory Processes and Neural Activations

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