This opportunity funds collaborative research to decode how substance use and addictive neurobehavioral states are represented by neural ensembles. It supports systematic, scalable methods to identify and analyze neuron groups responding to substances, aiming to create a multimodal database to test hypotheses about neural activity patterns linked to intoxication, craving, and dependence.
Eligible applicants include various U.S. government entities, educational institutions, nonprofits, for-profit organizations, small businesses, and foreign organizations without foreign subawards/subcontracts. Specific NIH policies on international collaborations apply.