Investment in Addiction
In addition to the research supported through the Addiction and Substance Misuse Research Strategy, the MRC funds addiction research through the Neuroscience and Mental Health Board (NMHB) and a number of Units and Centres.
NMHB live awards April 2010
Grant holder - Institution |
Title of Research |
Annual Amount |
Fellowships | ||
Dr R Jones |
Predicting change in the relationship between alcohol misuse and violence in young people |
£75,487 |
Dr C J Mackie |
Adolescent alcohol and substance misuse beliefs and behaviours: The role of language, inhibition, and attentional process |
£82,026 |
Grants | ||
Dr C P Bailey |
Mu-opioid receptor desensitization in ventral tegmental neurones: cellular mechanisms and functional consequences |
£139,402 |
Dr S Cragg |
Identifying the alpha6 nicotinic receptor subtypes that govern the control of striatal dopamine transmission by nicotine |
£116,688 |
Prof V Curran |
What determines an individual's vulnerability to the harmful effects of cannabis? |
£195,400 |
Dr J W Dalley |
Neurobiological correlates of trait impulsivity and drug abuse vulnerability |
£328,491 |
Prof C Drummond Institute of Psychiatry |
Pilot study of Assertive Community Treatment in alcohol dependence |
£143,545 |
Dr K Ersche |
Neurocognitive Endophenotypes of Stimulant Drug Dependence |
£217,118 |
Prof B J Everitt FRS |
Neural and psychological basis of compulsive drug seeking and relapse prevention in drug addiction. |
£401,604 |
Dr M J Field |
Inhibitory control and cue salience in alcohol abuse |
£94,362 |
Dr M Hickman |
Causal Pathways to Substance use and Dependence in Young People |
£173,280 |
Dr L Hogarth |
Human drug dependence: Cognitive predisposition and neural mechanisms |
£119,970 |
Prof H Little |
Glucocorticoid receptor antagonism and cognition in alcoholics |
£185,741 |
Prof H Little |
Importance of 11-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (HSD-1) in the consequences of chronic alcohol consumption |
£182,611 |
Dr J K Melichar |
Naltrexone implants in opioid dependence: a proof of mechanism study with pk and pd measures |
£134,581 |
Prof D Nutt |
Neurotransmitters in opiate and alcohol addiction |
£235,440 |
Prof G Schumann Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London |
Developmental pathways into adolescent substance abuse: neurophysiologic, genetic and environmental determinants |
£246,782 |
Prof D Stephens University of Sussex |
Involvement of alpha2 subunit-containing GABAA receptors in circuits underlying drug abuse |
£109,935 |
Prof D Stephens University of Sussex |
Sensitisation to alcohol withdrawal: consequences and mechanisms |
£140,000 |
Centres and units that are involved in addiction research
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge
MRC Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Research Centre
MRC/Wellcome Trust, Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute
MRC Clinical Sciences Centre (CSC)
MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit