Neurodevelopment Under the Influence: Cannabis and Its Long-Term Consequences
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Yasmin Hurd, PhD
Professor, Neuroscience
Professor, Pharmacological Sciences
Professor, Psychiatry
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Dr. Yasmin Hurd is the Ward-Coleman Chair of Translational Neuroscience and the Director of the Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai.
Dr. Hurd's multidisciplinary research investigates the neurobiology underlying addiction disorders and related psychiatric illnesses. A translational approach is used to examine molecular and neurochemical events in the human brain and comparable animal models in order to ascertain neurobiological correlates of behavior. A major focus of the research is directed to risk factors of addiction disorders including genetics as well as developmental exposure to drugs of abuse such as cannabis. The group also conducts human clinical trials in developing novel therapies for opioid use disorder.
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