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Tag: Jordan McCall

$3.4 million grant aims to study how fentanyl disrupts the brain’s locus coeruleus system

September 21, 2026

Jordan McCall, PhD, was awarded $3.4 million by the National Institute on Drug Abuse to examine how fentanyl alters the brain’s main alert and stress center and drives relapse to opioid use.

Scientists identify brain’s brake that shuts off chronic pain (Links to an external site)

August 17, 2026August 18, 2026
a schematic of the brain and a microscope image of cells in a region of the brain

Finding from mouse study could lead to targeted treatments for chronic nerve pain.

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