DRUG ADDICTION RESEARCH AT THE ROSKAMP INSTITUTE

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The Roskamp Institute (Institute) is engaged in the study of drug addiction from a genomic and proteomic perspective.

The genomic analysis, which covers the examination of all the genes in the human genetic make...

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The proteomic analysis allows researchers at the Institute to determine which drugs of addiction trigger particular protein responses.  The proteomic approach that the Institute adopts allows the researchers there to look at all the proteins in the human body in one go...
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Drug addiction impacts a very large part of American society and addiction to cocaine, heroin, morphine, and other drugs, including prescription drugs, is a persistent part of our culture....



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Traumatic Brain Injury in the War Zone

An article in the New England Journal of Medicine entitled “Traumatic Brain Injury in the War Zone” details the experiences of a supply officer with a US Army Stryker Brigade after suffering a head injury in Northern Iraq in a convoy transporting Iraqi volunteers to Mosul for military training.

The officer reported remembering that the streets were unusually quiet, and he.... find out more


As one of the most damaging and dangerous consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is brain edema causing swelling of the brain, neurosurgeons performed a craniectomy removing a large piece of skull from the left temporal region, allow.... find out more

Researchers at the Roskamp Institute (Institute) have previously shown the recovery after TBI is partly controlled by a gene called the APOE gene.  Variations in the APOE gene determine... find out more

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