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Our studies have shown a number of white matter changes within the brain that are associated with various factors of alcohol abuse. This sections on this page summarize a few of our findings. If you are interested in learning more, please take a look at the relevant publications.

Our lab has a very long history devoted to the investigation of the cognitive and neurologic effects of chronic alcoholism. We are one of a small number of laboratories in the field to apply the eyeblink classical conditioning associative learning paradigm, designed originally for animal research...

The Boston Attention and Learning Lab ( http://www.bu.edu/ballab ) at VA Boston uses behavioral measures, cognitive training, fMRI, and non-invasive bra in stimulation to investigate the ability to sustain attention and better understand why and how people get distracted. Additionally, we are...

Stroke and other silent cerebrovascular disease is highly prevalent in the African-American community. We are interested in examining how frontal lobe changes, due to cardiovascular risk, affect executive function, gait, and urinary bladder control. Our laboratory has tested a cohort of African...

The Translational Research Center for TBI and Stress Disorders (TRACTS) Center of Excellence at the VA Boston Healthcare System is a Veterans Administration Rehabilitation Research & Development supported VA Center of Excellence committed to conducting the highest quality research aimed at...

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One project in TRACTS is looking at how experiences during childhood might influence how service members react to stress later in life. Studies have shown that people’s reactions to stress are in part due to how much stress and psychological trauma they were exposed to when they were children. Using...

Vocational counseling remains an integral part of our TRACTS Center of Excellence. As always, our aim is to help ease the transition of service members from the military to the civilian workforce. We hope to provide practical assistance to service members in the following areas: Writing an effective...