Description: This describes basic neuroscience research performed in the Chartoff Lab at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
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McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS OUTREACH PEOPLE Ask Dr. Chartoff NEUROBIOLOGY OF MOTIVATED BEHAVIOR LABORATORY Chartoff Lab Our goal is to understand the molecular, cellular, and circuit-based mechanisms underlying drug dependence and withdrawal using animal behavioral models with high relevance to the human condition of drug addiction. Chronic exposure to drugs of abuse changes the brain such that drug withdrawal elicits a protracted constellation of negative affective signs. These include depressive- and anxiety-li