THE AUTHORS

David B. Newlin, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scientist at RTI International, a large, nonprofit research institute. He was previously on the faculty in psychology at Purdue University, then spent many years at NIH's National Institute on Drug Abuse. His research concerns the etiology of substance use disorders, primarily using psychophysiological and neuroimaging techniques. He has long-standing interests in tolerance and sensitization to drugs, genetic and environmental risk for alcoholism, and control theory and evolutionary theory as they relate to substance use disorders. He is a member of the editorial board of Substance Use and Misuse.

Rachael M. Renton, B.S., is currently a research assistant at the Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging at Georgetown University. She received her undergraduate degree in biopsychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara.