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Dr. Silvia Cruz
Silvia Cruz, Ph.D., is an international expert on the neurobiology of addiction who was a 1996-1997 NIDA INVEST Fellow at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) with Robert Balster, Ph.D. In 2010, she spent a year as an invited researcher at Mexico’s
Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz National Institute of Psychiatry
, where she focused on epidemiology, anthropology, and sociology. Dr. Cruz is currently a full professor at Mexico’s Center of Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (Cinvestav), where she previously served as graduate program coordinator and chair of the Department of Pharmacobiology. This interview is based on her webinar for the International Society of Addiction Medicine (ISAM) Neuroscience Interest Group series, “In Love with Addiction Neuroscience.”