This federal Project Grant award of $1,373,036 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273), aims to enhance the understanding and prediction of heavy drinking episodes during initial recovery from alcohol use disorder (AUD).
The project will leverage wearable biosensors and artificial intelligence (AI) methodologies to: 1) develop real-time predictive models using sensor data to accurately forecast heavy drinking...
This $498,121.57 project grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) funds research to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying maladaptive coping behaviors and subsequent alcohol use in response to stress, with a focus on sex differences.
The research project utilizes an animal model to directly manipulate the corticolimbic circuitry, specifically the prelimbic cortex and basolateral amygdala, to...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273), will support a research project to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying anxiety during early and protracted abstinence in alcohol use disorder (AUD). The $388,800 award will fund functional MRI experiments to assess connectivity and activation in brain regions associated with anxiety, such as the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis,...
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) awarded a $243,783 Project Grant under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to conduct a clinical neuroscience study on stress coping mechanisms in alcohol use disorder (AUD). The study aims to objectively assess chronic stress and examine dynamic functional connectivity within the brain's stress coping system using fMRI in 32 individuals with AUD and 32 matched controls....
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273), provides funding to Soovu Labs Inc. to develop a wearable medical device for treating stress and anxiety in individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD).
The key products and services to be delivered through this $385,000 award include: 1) Determining the optimal parameters for stimulating C-tactile fibers and TRPV-1 channels to reduce anxiety and...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs grant program (CFDA 93.273), is aimed at designing, building, and pilot testing a virtual reality (VR) experience to enhance brief motivational interventions (BMIs) for hazardous drinking among young adults.
The $618,932 grant will be used to develop an immersive VR experience that can be integrated into BMIs to help young adult participants reflect more...
This $175,231 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) will fund research to examine factors that promote resilience against alcohol use disorder (AUD) among high-risk adolescents and young adults.
The key products of this 5-year grant include investigating the interplay of parenting, genetics, and brain function in trajectories of resilience and risk for AUD in children of parents with AUD....
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273), provides $545,282 to study neural mechanisms underlying alcohol use disorder (AUD) during early abstinence. The primary awardee is the University of Colorado-Denver, which will use cutting-edge neuroimaging techniques to assess changes in cognitive reappraisal and alcohol cue reactivity brain function in 150 AUD patients receiving residential...
This Project Grant award of $509,683.37 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) federal grant program, will fund a 3-year research study conducted by the University of Missouri System to develop a translational human laboratory model for studying individual differences in the attribution of incentive salience to alcohol cues and its association with future problematic alcohol use.
The research will involve two...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) federal grant program, supports a longitudinal study to examine changes in social cognition and emotional processing among individuals recovering from alcohol use disorder (AUD).
The $351,413 award will fund research at the University of Florida to assess emotion processing capabilities in recently abstinent AUD patients over the first 3 months of...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) federal grant program, will provide $206,021 to the University of New Mexico to develop expertise in mindfulness-based interventions, heart rate variability (HRV) measurement, and advanced mobile health technologies for treating alcohol use disorder (AUD).
The key objectives of this mentored patient-oriented research career development award are to: 1) strengthen the principal investigator's trajectory as an independent researcher in this domain; 2) train the PI in using wearable sensors to collect longitudinal psychophysiological HRV data before and after mindfulness-based relapse prevention (MBRP) treatment sessions; and 3) integrate the HRV data with ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to examine the relationship between negative affect, craving, and alcohol use throughout the MBRP intervention. This research aims to improve MBRP treatments and inform the development of adaptive MBRP interventions by incorporating sensor-based physiological measures.