Speakers > Aldo Badiani
Aldo Badiani is Professor of Pharmacology and Director of the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). He also holds a position of Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the University of Sussex (UK), where he founded the Sussex Addiction Research & Intervention Centre (SARIC) in 2014. He has been President of the European Behavioural Pharmacology Society (EBPS) from 2011 to 2013, and received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the EBPS (https://ebps.org/awardees/) in 2021. Aldo Badiani conducts preclinical and translational research in the field drug addiction.
Drug Addictions - Putting Drugs into Context
This presentation will review translational studies concerned with environmental influences on the behavioural and neurobiological response to addictive drugs in people with substance use disorders as well as in animal models of drug use and addiction. These findings point to crucial differences between opiate versus psychostimulants, and challenge current theories of drug reward and addiction.
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