Thursday, February 21, 2019
Catharine Winstanley (UBC Vancouver) discusses mechanisms of impulsive and poor decision-making in gambling and its intersection with mechanisms of disparate drugs of abuse, addiction and relapse. The group considers whether addiction is a single disease, and whether catecholamine systems are the final common pathway for various addiction trajectories.
(apologies for some uneven sound, it’s worth roughing it out!)
Duration: 46 minutes
Discussants:(in alphabetical order)
Salma Quraishi (Res Asst Prof, UTSA)
Carlos Paladini (Professor, UTSA)
Matt Wanat (Asst Prof, UTSA)
Charles Wilson (Ewing Halsell Chair, UTSA)
acknowledgement: JM Tepper for original music.
