ANN ARBOR (AP) - Two University of Michigan professors have received a $1.5 million, five-year grant to study addiction-related behaviors among rats.

The funding announced Monday by the Ann Arbor school is for an effort that aims to further the understanding substance abuse by people.

Terry Robinson, a professor of psychology and neuroscience, and Shelly Flagel, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and at the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, are participating in the project through a new national Center of Excellence.

The University of Michigan work is called the "Genetic Studies of Incentive Salience" and is one of four initial projects supported by the center.

[Grant details HERE].

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