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Announcements |
Dr. Jean Gehricke Receives $480,000 TRDRP Grant (July 2005)
Dr. Gehricke, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, will receive a Research Project Award from the Tobacco-Related Research Program of the University of California to study "Nicotine & Behavioral Regulation in Adult ADHD."
Whereas the smoking prevalence rates among adults are declining, rates among people diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) continue to be elevated. Nicotine may be a form of self-medication in individuals with ADHD who may be highly susceptible to the behavioral effects of nicotine. The study will provide information on nicotine’s reward mechanisms, cardiac side effects that may lead to cardiovascular disease, and gender differences.
This study will set the stage for further research on nicotine by stimulant medication interactions and dose responses in order to identify the most efficient smoking cessation treatment for smokers with ADHD.
Dr. Connie Pechmann receives $480,000 TRDRP grant (July 2005)
Marketing Professor Connie Pechmann, a national expert on the impact of tobacco advertising on youth, will receive a three-year grant from the University of California’s Tobacco-Related Research Program to support her project, "Use of Entertainment Education on TV to Deter Youth Smoking."
Pechmann will investigate the potential effectiveness of putting messages in situation comedies to deter teens from smoking. The strategy of embedding health or social messages in TV shows, called "entertainment education," is growing in popularity nationally and internationally. Pechmann is the first researcher to study if the strategy works with smoking prevention.
Drs. John
Whiteley, Dan Stokols, and Jim Fallon Receive NIH Funding
To Run ID-SURE (May 2005)
Drs. Whiteley,
Stokols, and Fallon will be working with the Undergraduate Research Opportunities
Program (UROP) to offer interdisciplinary training for undergraduate
students. As one of the five schools to have been awarded
funding from the National Institutes of Health, the program expects
to receive nearly $600,000 in the next three years.
The program, Inter-Disciplinary Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (ID-SURE), is currently calling for proposals for student research projects for the upcoming summer session. All UCI undergraduates from all disciplines who have an interest and commitment in conducting research that relates to health promotion are welcome to apply.
Dr. Whiteley, professor of Environmental Analysis & Design, serves a principal investigator of ID-SURE. He can be reached at whiteley@uci.edu. Dr. Stokols, professor of Planning, Policy and Design can be reached at dstokols@uci.edu. Dr. Fallon, professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology can be reached at jfallon@uci.edu.
Dr. Frances Leslie Receives NIH Funding (March 2005)
Dr. Leslie will be working with NIH to investigate age and sex differences in the rewarding and neural effects of psychostimulant drugs in rats, and determine
whether exposure to nicotine during adolescence increases sensitivity to psychostimulants. Dr. Leslie and her team proposes to undertake integrative behavioral and neurochemical/neuroanatomical studies in rats to evaluate the hypothesis that alcohol and tobacco may serve as gateway drugs that sensitize reward pathways to the action of illicit drugs.
The NIH research program focuses on animal models of adolescent drug abuse
and integrative studies of brain and behavioral development. Dr. Leslie received
over $1.3 million, which will provide funding for five years.
Dr. Steven Potkin Receives NIH Roadmap Award (February 2005)
Led by Dr. Potkin, the Brain Imaging Center will be working with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help advance the federal agency's "Roadmap for
Medical Research" program.
The NIH Roadmap is a series of far-reaching initiatives designed to transform
the nation's medical research capabilities and speed the movement of research discoveries from the bench to the bedside. Dr. Potkin received $1 million in funding
to participate in the National Alliance for Medical Imaging Computing consortium
and $1.7 million to establish the Transdisciplinary Imaging Genetics Center at UCI. Each grant provides funding for three years.
Youth Tobacco Use Report. (June 2004)
The UCI TTURC has prepared a collection of findings based on
of five years of research relating to youth tobacco use from
UC Irvine and other TTURCs across the nation.
"Closing the Gap on Youth Tobacco Use" is now available. For more information, please contact Louri Groves at (949) 351-7160.
Thangata:
Social Bondage & Big Tobacco in Malawi
What are the links between the human rights movements in tobacco growing countries like Malawi and the anti-tobacco ovements in the U.S.?
Produced by Dr. Marty Otanez and Michelle Ontanez, Thangata examines local responses to the global tobacco crisis. The documentary promotes the message
that men, women, and children who produce for U.S. tobacco companies and international markets are part of the solution to build public health and corporate accountability.
Dr. Otanez recently completed his dissertation about tobacco workers and practices of U.S. tobacco firms in Malawi (Africa). His paper on economic dependence and the tobacco industry in Malawi is included in a publication by the Malawi-German Program for Democracy and Decentralization.
Ex-smokers needed to join research study. (May 2004)
.If you are a former smoker between the ages of 18-45, you may qualify to participate in a brain research study that will evaluate the effects of nicotine on brain function using a special P.E.T. camera. Eligible participants will receive financial compensation up to $375. Interested men & women should call (949) 824-8087 or (888) 824-1588. Please ask for the Nicotine study.
Investigators: Steven Potkin, M.D., James Fallon, Ph.D., Larry Jamner, Ph.D., Joseph Wu, M.D. The Brain Imaging Center Irvine Hall University of California, Irvine 92697
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