The Office of the Vice President for Research recognizes Warren Bickel, professor of psychology with the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute and in the College of Science at Virginia Tech, for research to help addicts learn to value the future.
Bickel, who is director of the Advance Recovery Research Center, examines decision-making processes in the brain that support dysfunctional decision-making, including addiction, and seeks novel therapeutic means to repair those processes. One area of his research is directed at the process involved in preferring instant gratification over a future health benefit.
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