Prof. Kim Fromme in the Bar Lab.
You go to a bar on Austin’s Sixth Street to see and be seen. You go to the Bar Lab to be watched. You go to both to drink.
The Bar Lab is exactly that: A bar laboratory. It’s where Kim Fromme, a professor in the Department of Psychology, and her students conduct research on college students and drinking.
It looks like a small neighborhood bar might look if it was staffed with a cleaning crew
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R. Dayne Mayfield
The people who use their brain to think ahead about donating their brains to science do R. Dayne Mayfield a big favor.
Mayfield, a researcher at the Waggoner Center for Addiction and Alcoholism Research, uses the brain tissue to study the genetic impact of alcohol on the brain.
READ MORE about ADDICTION research at www.utexas.edu on Oct. 5, 2009
The more he knows about the donors, the better the information obtained from the donors’ tissue.
The plan-ahead donors fill out a questionnaire detailing
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