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NextGen Precision Health Neuroscience Seminar - April 25, 2022

More information and a recording of the talk is available below.

For questions about this event, please reach out to Mary Christie at mchristie@health.missouri.edu

"What is the value of Theta-Burst TMS for understanding and treating drug addiction"

Presented by: Brett Froeliger, PhD

Date: April 25, 2022, 4-5 p.m.

 

Speaker Bio

Froeliger

Brett Froeliger, PhD is a Professor in the Departments of Psychology & Behavioral Science and Psychiatry, and Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Core Facility at the University of Missouri. He completed his PhD at Southern Illinois University, postdoctoral fellowship in neuropsychopharmacology at Duke University Medical Center, joined the Neuroscience Faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina in 2013 and then joined the faculty at MU in 2020. His program of research has been continuously funded by NIH since 2012 and is organized around using brain imaging techniques to evaluate the potential benefit of novel pharmacotherapies, behavioral interventions, and non-invasive neural stimulation for treating drug addiction. Dr. Brett Froeliger and his team applied transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to reveal brain function to drug addiction.