Leveraging research into sex differences and steroid hormones to improve brain health
Sex differences, driven in part by steroid hormones, shape the structure and function of the brain throughout the lifespan and manifest across brai…
Category: Addiction
Identification of risk variants and cross-disorder pleiotropy through multi-ancestry genome-wide analysis of alcohol use disorder
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is highly heritable and burdensome worldwide. Genome-wide association studies can provide new evidence regarding the eti…
The dopaminergic effects of esketamine are mediated by a dual mechanism involving glutamate and opioid receptors
Esketamine represents a new class of drugs for treating mood disorders. Unlike traditional monoaminergic-based therapies, esketamine primarily targ…