Juan J. Canales
University Reader in Behavioural Neuroscience
University of Leicester
UK
Biography
His group aims to understand the biological and psychological substrates of addictions and how these overlap with the brain processes that mediate learning, memory, motivation and emotion. We investigate in humans and animals the brain mechanisms that mediate addiction vulnerability and we work on the discovery of novel, more efficacious therapies, both psychosocial and pharmacological, to treat addiction-spectrum disorders.
Research Interest
Cellular & Molecular Neurobiology Behaviour & Cognition