posted December 12, 2024
MSI PIs Monica Luciana (professor, Psychology; Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain) and Angela Birnbaum (professor, Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology) have received a grant from the National Institute of Drug Abuse to study the neurobehavioral impacts of medical cannabis use. While medical cannabis is widely prescribed for a variety of diseases and conditions, there is little data on its impacts of behavior, neural function, and pharmacology. This project will investigate those impacts, and the results are expected to help inform decisions about cannabis use for medical purposes. A story about the project can be found on the College of Liberal Arts website: Monica Luciana receives grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Professor Luciana uses MSI resources to perform neuroimaging studies in several projects involving adolescent brain development, recreational use of cannabis and alcohol, and medical use of cannabis. Professor Birnbaum uses MSI resources to help train pharmacy students to become quantitative modeling and simulation scientists.