Neuroscientist Travis Baker Wins $2.5 Million Grant to Treat Substance Abuse Disorder

Rutgers University | Neuroscientist Travis Baker recently won a $2.5 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to develop new brain-based interventions to correct aberrant reward processes that sustain substance-use disorders. The grant, which covers two phases of research over five years, will support Baker's use of a cutting-edge robot-assisted brain-imaging technology called transcranial magnetic stimulation (Ri-TMS) to induce electrical currents inside the brain with great precision to alter reward-system circuitry, potentially complementing current treatment programs to help address nicotine and other addictions.