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Wendy Lynch, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neural Behavioral sciences.
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I love that every day is new, different from the last and that I have. I am continuously learning new information and acquiring new skills, new technologies. I love addressing research questions related to addiction, looking at how the brain changes once addiction has developed.
My name is Wendy Lynch and I'm an associate professor of psychiatry and neural behavioral sciences here at UVA, and I study addiction.
I study the neurobiology of addiction. So looking at how the brain changes once addiction has developed, I use preclinical models to look at these changes in the brains, and I include both males and females in my studies so that I can look at the sex differences not only with the behavior and how the addiction process develops, but also what the underlying brain changes.
The ultimate goal for the work in my lab is to discover new interventions that can be used to treat substance use disorders in humans. So we screen various interventions, environmental interventions such as exercise and neuro modulatory tools such as focused ultrasound. And these things. Can we use them to target and repair circuits that are disrupted by addiction? With the ultimate goal of helping men and women with addiction.
Wendy Lynch, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neural Behavioral sciences.
Transcript:
I love that every day is new, different from the last and that I have. I am continuously learning new information and acquiring new skills, new technologies. I love addressing research questions related to addiction, looking at how the brain changes once addiction has developed.
My name is Wendy Lynch and I'm an associate professor of psychiatry and neural behavioral sciences here at UVA, and I study addiction.
I study the neurobiology of addiction. So looking at how the brain changes once addiction has developed, I use preclinical models to look at these changes in the brains, and I include both males and females in my studies so that I can look at the sex differences not only with the behavior and how the addiction process develops, but also what the underlying brain changes.
The ultimate goal for the work in my lab is to discover new interventions that can be used to treat substance use disorders in humans. So we screen various interventions, environmental interventions such as exercise and neuro modulatory tools such as focused ultrasound. And these things. Can we use them to target and repair circuits that are disrupted by addiction? With the ultimate goal of helping men and women with addiction.
