Primary Recipient

UNIVERISTY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER

Amount

$407,000.00

Award Date

4/28/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Major depression and alcoholism feature lower-than-normal densities of neurons and glial cells in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) brain region heavily involved in addictive and affective disorders. In establishing the pathophysilology of MDD and alcoholism,