On Thursday, January 5, 2017, from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM EDT (New York time), the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) will host their monthly Addiction Speaker Series featuring Sarah W. Yip PhD, MSc.

Dr. Yip is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University's School of Medicine. Her work focuses on the application of advanced neuroimaging techniques to identify mechanisms of emerging medication treatments for addictions. She was recently awarded a Mentored Research Scientist Development Award from National Institute on Drug Abuse to explore the effects of glutamatergic and acetylcholinergic medications on neural systems involved in response inhibition, reward-processing and emotion regulation among individuals with cocaine dependence. 

She will present on: "Shared and unique neurobiological features of cocaine-use disorder and gambling disorder."

You can register for live webinar at: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/7490171555363561220

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If you have any questions about this event, please contact Cindy McGulvery at cmcgulvery [at] centeronaddiction [dot] org

Additionally, Dr. Yip's research has produced some interesting findings in this regard. On March 2016, she and a group of researchers published the article "Shared Microstructural Features of Behavioral and Substance Addictions Revealed in Areas of Crossing Fibers". They used diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging to study the white matter microstructural features between individuals with gambling disorder, cocaine use disorder, and healthy comparison participants. Based on their observations, they concluded that there is evidence of a possible underlying common vulnerability mechanism for addictivie disorders, both for substance use disorders and behavioral disorders.

Abstract of the publication is available at: http://www.biologicalpsychiatrycnni.org/article/S2451-9022(16)30003-9/abstract