Genes and the Motivation to Use Substances

Dr. Stoltenberg holds a PhD in psychology with a focus on behavior genetics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He proceeded to do a NIAAA funded postdoctoral fellowship in human alcoholism genetics at the Addiction Research Center at the University of Michigan. He then joined the University of Michigan research faculty in the Psychiatry Department, where he continued to conduct research into the genetics of alcoholism. In 2004, he took a more teaching-oriented position at Black Hills State University before coming to University of Nebraska in 2009.

• 1 Do Genes Motivate Substance Use?.- 2. Rodent Models of Genetic Contributions to Motivation to Abuse Alcohol.- 3 The adolescent origins of substance use disorders: A behavioral genetic perspective.- 4 Genes, Brain, Behavior and Context: The developmental matrix of addictive behavior.- 5 Have the genetics of cannabis involvement gone to pot?.- 6 The DNA Methylation Signature of Smoking: An Archetype for the Identification of Biomarkers for Behavioral Illness.- 7 Genomics of impulsivity: Integrating genes and neuroscience.