George Koob

George F. Koob, Ph.D. (1947- ) is a Professor and Chair of the Committee on the Neurobiology of Addictive Disorders at The Scripps Research Institute and Adjunct Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego.

Dr. Koob is a pioneering researcher in the field of substance abuse and stress. He has proposed, with Dr. Michel Le Moal, a contemporary model of drug addiction termed "the allostatic model of addiction". [ [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9311926?ordinalpos=7&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum PMID:9311926 Koob, G.F. and Le Moal, M.; "Drug abuse: hedonic homeostatic dysregulation." Science. 1997 Oct. 3;278(5335):52-8.] ] [ [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11120394?ordinalpos=6&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum PMID:11120394 Koob, G.F. and Le Moal, M.; "Drug addiction, dysregulation of reward, and allostasis." Neuropsychopharmacology. 2001 Feb;24(2):97-129. Review.] ] He is one of the most highly cited contemporary neuroscientists. [ [http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/formSearch.cgi ISI Web of Knowledge (Search Form)] ] Dr. Koob has co-authored a book in collaboration with Dr. Le Moal. [ George F. Koob, Michel LeMoal, "Neurobiology of Addiction", Academic Press (2005), ISBN-13: 978-0124192393 ]

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* [http://www.scripps.edu/research/faculty.php?rec_id=685/ Faculty profile at the Scripps Research Institute]