This funding opportunity renews the INIA to support two collaborative multisite consortia investigating brain-body homeostatic dysregulation promoting excessive alcohol drinking and Alcohol Use Disorder. Research focuses on trajectories from initial exposure to pathological drinking, employing advanced tools from the BRAIN Initiative and NIH Common Fund. Emphasis is on standardization, replication, and cross-species translation to identify mechanisms and markers for prevention and intervention.
Eligible applicants include state and county governments, independent school districts, public and private institutions of higher education, federally recognized and other Native American tribal governments and organizations, public housing authorities, nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status, for-profit o