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From Funding News:
The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) will award a total of $2 million to researchers who study the impact of adolescent drinking on the developing brain.
"We now know that the brain continues to develop into a person's 20s with dramatic changes in structure and function coincident with a period of life during which most youth initiate and escalate their consumption of alcohol," NIAAA noted in the grant announcement.
"This [announcement] calls for applications to propose and test the feasibility of research-study designs addressing the following fundamental questions ...
what are the effects (both long and shorter-term) of alcohol exposure on the developing brain ...
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Posted on January 8, 2007 10:23 PM
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