January 20, 2005
Kathleen A. Grant, Ph.D., Wake Forest University School of Medicine
"Pharmacological basis of the discriminative stimulus effects of ethanol in mice, rats, and monkeys"

March 28, 2005
Hugh Fentress, Vanderbilt University
"Genetic analysis of 5-HT2C receptors in unipolar depression"

April 5, 2005
Marisa Roberto, Ph.D., Neuropharmacology, The Scripps Research Institute
"Ethanol, GABA, and neuropeptide interactions in the central amygdala"

April 29, 2005
Robert Gibbs, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy
"Estrogen, brain aging, and cognition: Where do we go from here?"

May 5, 2005
Joseph D. Matarazzo Lecture Series
Barry Everitt, Ph.D., Sc.D., Experimental Psychology, Downing College, Cambridge University
"Neural psychological mechanisms underlying compulsive drug seeking: Implications for addiction and its treatment"

September 9, 2005
Melanie A. Paquette, M.A., Arizona State University
"Amphetamine-evoked paradoxical rotation: A neuropsychological approach to a "contraversive" issue"

September 15, 2005
Robert Dudley, Ph.D., Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley
"Fermenting fruit and primate diets: Is alcoholism an evolutionary hangover?"

November 3, 2005
Jeanna Wheeler, B.S., Department of Genome Science, University of Washington
"Genetic analysis of rhythmic behavior in C. elegans"