Research Spotlight: Yasmin Hurd, PhD

Yasmin Hurd, PhD, is the Ward-Coleman Chair of Translational Neuroscience and the Director of the Addiction Institute at Mount Sinai. A world-renowned expert in addiction research, Dr. Hurd's multidisciplinary research investigates the neurobiology underlying addiction disorders and related psychiatric illnesses. In this video, she discusses the focus of her research, her top findings from the past 5 years, and future directions.