<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2025/11-04/07-aud-research.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><categories>Research</categories><pubDate>11/04/2025 02:00:00 AM</pubDate><title>Extending AUD Research: Downstate Team Maps Reward Responses</title><sub-title/><description>What happens in the brain when we win—or lose? Researchers in Downstate’s Henri Begleiter Neurodynamics Laboratory (HBNL) have taken a closer look, using advanced brain imaging to trace how healthy young adults process rewards. The project builds directly on techniques the lab pioneered to study Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD), now applied to typical reward responses in the general population.</description><author>Office of the President</author><image><img xmlns:ouc="http://omniupdate.com/XSL/Variables" src="https://www.downstate.edu/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2025/11-04/_images/brain_gambling_thumb.png" alt="Chella Kamarajan, PhD"/></image><loc>/var/staging/oucampus/suny-downstate/downstate/about/office-of-the-president/presidents-bulletin/2025/11-04/07-aud-research.xml</loc><categories><category>Research</category></categories></item>