Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THE

Amount

$227,250.00

Award Date

5/04/2009

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

Previous studies using PET and SPECT endogenous competition binding techniques have shown that chronic cocaine users relative to healthy controls release less dopamine following an acute amphetamine challenge. A likely explanation for a decrease in DA tra