Penn Medicine News: Charles O’Brien Receives Institute of Medicine’s 2010 Sarnat Prize in Mental Health

Published October 17, 2010

Penn Medicine News: Charles O’Brien Receives Institute of Medicine’s 2010 Sarnat Prize in Mental Health
Addiction was not viewed as a medical disorder when O’Brien began his career in the 1970s. His discoveries have been fundamental in proving that drugs affect how the brain works and in developing pharmaceutical and behavioral therapies for addiction.
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