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    Research Grants to Study Relationship Between Drinking and Adolescent Thinking and Brain Development

    By Mithra Salmassi
    January 2010

    The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) will award research grants under the R01 program to support studies on Alcohol, Decision-Making, and Adolescent Brain Development.

    Grants will be awarded to “institutions/organizations that propose to study decision-making processes in adolescents as they relate to drinking behavior, and the role of neural circuitry development in adolescent decision-making and alcohol abuse and dependence,” according to NIAAA.

    Nonprofits, schools, government entities, for-profit companies and others may apply. Application deadline is May 7, 2012.

    For full details, see the grant announcement online.