Francesca Mapua Filbey is a Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Texas at Dallas and Director of the Neuroimaging of Reward Dynamics Laboratory at the Center for BrainHealth. A leading expert in addiction neuroscience, Dr. Filbey's research focuses on the brain and genetic mechanisms underlying substance use disorders, particularly cannabis and alcohol. She is internationally recognized for her work using neuroimaging and genomics to study craving, brain structure, and individual differences in addiction vulnerability.

• 1. What is addiction?; 2. Human neuroscience approaches towards the understanding of addiction; 3. Brain-behavior theories of addiction; 4. From the motivation to initiate drug use to recreational drug use: reward and motivational systems; 5. Intoxication; 6. Withdrawal; 7. Craving; 8. Inhibitory control; 9. Impacts of brain-based discoveries on prevention and intervention approaches; 10. Drugs and society.

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