Edythe Danick London (born September 14, 1948) is The Thomas and Katherine Pike Professor of Addiction Studies, and Director of the UCLA Laboratory of Molecular Pharmacology at the

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. London received her Ph.D. in

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from the

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(Baltimore). She did a post-doctoral fellowship at

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School of Medicine. Prior to joining the UCLA faculty, she was a Senior Scientist at the

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for 23 years and a member of the faculty at the

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. She is known internationally for her work on

drug addiction Addiction is a neuropsychological disorder characterized by a persistent and intense urge to use a drug or engage in a behavior that produces natural reward, despite substantial harm and other negative consequences. Repetitive drug use can ...

as well as other addictive disorders, such as tobacco and nicotine dependence. She has been a pioneer in the development and use of advanced brain imaging techniques to study the effects of drugs, tobacco and other substances of abuse on brain function, including nuclear medicine studies such as Positron Emission Tomography (PET), and

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(fMRI). Her UCLA laboratory is engaged in a wide range of scientific studies as well as the development and testing of new medications. The

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lists several hundred articles published in

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that have been cited over 13,000 times, leading to an

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of 63. Her house in Beverly Hills, California was vandalized on October 23, 2007, in an act credited to an animal activist group

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by breaking a window of the house and inserting a

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which flooded the house. Over $50,000 damage was reported. Subsequently, her house was again attacked and damaged by a firebomb left at the front door on Tuesday, February 5, 2008. No one was home at the time. A statement issued by the North American Animal Liberation Press Office claimed that animal liberationists were responsible for placing the device."UCLA Professor's House Is Firebombed
Chronicle of Higher Education
February 6, 2008

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:London, Edythe D. Living people University of Maryland, Baltimore alumni American pharmacologists Women pharmacologists David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA faculty Johns Hopkins University faculty 1948 births