2021 Symposium Opening Remarks - Robert Malenka and Brian Knutson

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Thursday, October 21, 2021
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9:00am to 9:15am PDT
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Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
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Leading Stanford addiction neuroscientists Robert Malenka, MD, and Brian Knutson, PhD, will welcome attendees to the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute's Eighth Annual Symposium, "The Addiction Epidemic, from Neuroscience to Policy"


Speakers

Robert Malenka, Nancy Friend Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

Robert Malenka

Stanford University

Dr. Robert C. Malenka is the Nancy Friend Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director of the Nancy Pritzker Laboratory and Deputy Director of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine as well as an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He has served on the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse and as a Councilor for the Society for Neuroscience and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He has been the recipient of numerous career awards and serves on the scientific advisory boards of numerous non-profit foundations and biotechs His laboratory continues to conduct research on the molecular mechanisms of neural communication as well as the role of circuit dysfunction in brain disorders including addiction, Alzheimer’s, autism, and depression.


Brian Knutson, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University

Brian Knutson

Stanford University

Brian Knutson is a Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Stanford University. His research focuses on the neural basis of emotional experience and expression. He investigates the topic with a number of methods including self-report, measurement of nonverbal behavior, comparative ethology, psychopharmacology, and neuroimaging. His long-term goal is to understand the neurochemical and neuroanatomical mechanisms responsible for emotional experience, and to explore the implications of these findings for the assessment and treatment of clinical disorders as well as for economic behavior. He received BAs in experimental psychology and comparative religion from Trinity University, a PhD in experimental psychology from Stanford University, and has conducted postdoctoral research in affective neuroscience at UC-San Francisco and at the National Institutes of Health. He is a fellow of the Academy for Behavioral Medicine Research and the Association for Psychological Science, and his research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and numerous private foundations.