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She Studies How Addiction Hijacks Learning in the Brain | Quanta Magazine

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Erin Calipari, an addiction researcher at Vanderbilt University, works to understand how drugs alter learning circuits in the brain. Laura Partain for Quanta Magazine Staff Writer December 7, 2023 Erin Calipari comes from a basketball family. Her father, John Calipari, has coached college and professional basketball since 1998, leading six teams to the NCAA Final Four, and her brother coaches men’s basketball at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she now works. But when she joined her college team as an undergraduate, she realized her strengths lay elsewhere. “I was fine. I wasn’t great,” she said. “It was pretty clear to me a couple years in that it was not a career path.” Off the court, as a biology major she gravitated toward hormones and neurotransmitters. She grew fascinated with the neurobiology of how and why drugs such as cocaine and opioids are addictive, as she learned about the effects of ecstasy on the serotonin system. “I thought drugs were so cool becaus

She Studies How Addiction Hijacks Learning in the Brain | Quanta Magazine Home She Studies How Addiction Hijacks Learning in the Brain Read Later Share Copied! Comments Read Later Read Later Q&A She Studies How Addiction Hijacks Learning in the Brain By Yasemin Saplakoglu December 7, 2023 Erin Calipari works to understand how drugs like opioids and cocaine alter learning circuits and neurochemistry in one of the country's epicenters of substance use disorder and addiction. Read Later Erin Calipari, an addiction researcher at Vanderbilt University, works to understand how drugs alter learning c

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