Published: Feb. 5, 2015

 CU Psychology and Neuroscience postdoctoral researcher and recent departmental PhD Alexis Northcutt was in the popular press for her research demonstrating a potential way through the immune system to block the addictive effects of cocaine (and possibly other drugs). Co-authors were several CU faculty, postdocs, and a graduate student in the department, as well as former CU postdoc Mark Hutchinson, now a full professor at the University of Adelaide in Australia. Read the , the in Medical News Today, or read the published in the Nature journal Molecular Psychiatry.