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September 21, 2020
McElligott Awarded NIH Grant to Study Neural Circuitry of Alcohol Consumption
Zoe McElligott, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry and pharmacology and member of the UNC Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, will investigate how neurotransmitters promote alcohol consumption and whether chronic alcohol consumption alters the strength of a specific brain circuit.