About the Authors

Nora D. Volkow

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: nvolkow@nida.nih.gov

Affiliations National Institute on Drug Abuse, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Joanna S. Fowler

Affiliation Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, United States of America

Gene-Jack Wang

Affiliation Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, United States of America

Frank Telang

Affiliation National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jean Logan

Affiliation Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, United States of America

Christopher Wong

Affiliation Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, United States of America

Jim Ma

Affiliation National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Kith Pradhan

Affiliation Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, United States of America

Helene Benveniste

Affiliation Medical Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, United States of America

James M. Swanson

Affiliation Child Development Center, University of California Irvine, Irvine, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NV JF GW FT JL HB JS. Performed the experiments: NV JF GW FT JL JM HB. Analyzed the data: NV CW KP. Wrote the paper: NV JF JS.