Psychology
College of Liberal Arts
Twin Cities
Award Year
2019
University Award
McKnight Land-Grant Professorship
No Monument Location
Nature and nurture in addiction
Addictive behaviors are major sources of preventable death caused by genetic factors and environmental circumstance. Dr. Vrieze studies such factors in order to identify causal mechanisms in the development of addiction, with the ultimate goal of designing interventions based on this causal understanding. His laboratory uses cutting edge genomic tools and rigorous experimental design to discover genes associated with addiction, and characterize the biological and social mechanisms by which addictive drugs act.