Press

10/25/23

ISMMS press release: Dysregulation of the Brain’s Reward Learning System Is Identified by Scientists as a Potential Driver and Treatment Target for Cocaine Addiction

Also featured in Cell Press, Neuroscience News, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News, Science Daily, Newswise, Medicalxpress, Independentnews, and others. 

7/18/23

ISMMS press release: "Study Shows Differences in How Patients With Heroin Use Disorder Process Drug and Reward Cues".

6/14/23
NIH press release: "Men died of overdose at 2-3 times greater a rate than women in the U.S. in 2020-2021".

10/06/22
ISMMS press release: “Human Cocaine and Heroin Addiction Is Found Tied to Impairments in Specific Brain Circuit Initially Implicated in Animals”.

Also featured in EurekAlert, Neuroscience News, Science Daily, and others.

03/21/22
Interview with Scientific Sense Podcast by Gill Eapen.

05/27/21
ISMMS press release: “A Technique for Regulating Emotion May be Effective in Disrupting Compulsive Cocaine Addiction, a Mount Sinai Study Has Found”.

Also featured in: EurekaAlert and others.

10/17/18
Featured in Addiction, a PBS NOVA production for WGBH Boston, produced by S. Holt.

06/06/18
ISMMS press release: “Human Drug Addiction Behaviors Closely Tied to Specific Impairments Within Six Large-Scale Brain Networks”.

Also featured in NIDA, LiveScience, Science Daily, EurekAlert, MedicalResearch, MEDPAGE, and others.

09/05/17
ISMMS press release: “Cocaine Users’ Brains Unable to Extinguish Drug Associations”.

08/25/17
National Geographic magazine cover story: “How Science is Unlocking the Secrets of Addiction”.

Consequentlyinterviewed by: think KERA, (08/23/17), FoxNewsEdge (08/29/17), SiriusXM’s Doctor Radio Reports (09/21/17), and the Leonard Lopate Show at the WNYC/NY Public Radio (10/13/17).

09/07/16
ISMMS press release: “Mount Sinai Researchers First to Measure the Brain’s Electric Activity to Pinpoint When Cocaine-Addicted Individuals Are Most Vulnerable to Relapse”.

03/17/16
Featured on labroots, presented at the Neuroscience Virtual Event, “The neurobiology underlying drug addiction: lessons from multimodality imaging and neuropsychological studies in humans”.

02/04/15
ISMMS press release: “Cocaine Users Have Impaired Ability to Predict Loss”.

Consequentlypress releases in CNBC, LA Times and others.

09/10/14
ISMMS press release: “New Study Examines Impact of Violent Media on the Brain Exposure to violence has a different effect on people with aggressive traits”.

11/20/13
ISMMS press release: “Brain abnormalities linked to impaired self-awareness in cocaine addiction”.

Consequently press releases in: Eurekalert, and others.