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Juan M Dominguez

Vice Provost for Academic, Curricular and Career Innovation, Professor

The neural-endocrine regulation of motivated behaviors and associated disorders like addiction; using mating behavior as a prototypic model to better understand motivation and associated disorders, especially the neuroendocrinological factors that regulate substance abuse disorders and depressive disorders; the neuroendocrinological underpinnings of biological-sex differences in response to drugs of abuse.