LAB FACILITIES

The BEAN Lab is fortunate to have access to dedicated research lab space in the Department of Applied Behavioral Science. We are located on the 4th floor of the Dole Human Development Center on KU's Lawrence campus. Our lab space includes a communal lab room with conference table and RA workstations, desks and offices for graduate students, assessment rooms, and other research spaces.

We also take advantage of state-of-the-art research facilities in the Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment located on the 3rd floor of Dole building. 

View the photos below to learn more about our research facilities.

The CLC is home to a simulated bar laboratory. Researchers in the Addictions Lab @ KU  use the bar lab for conducting alcohol cue exposures, self-administration protocols, and other studies examining drinking behaviors in a naturalistic drinking environment. The bar lab is equipped with a large assortment of alcohol bottles (beer, liquor, wine), glassware, drink mixing accessories, alcohol-themed artwork, and soft lighting. The bar lab will also feature a closed-circuit video system for monitoring participant behavior during testing sessions. Adjacent to the bar lab is a neutral cues room, which is used for neutral beverage cue exposures (e.g., water cues). These two rooms are generally similar in size and lighting, but differ in terms of the theme of the decor (alcohol stimuli in the bar lab, neutral stimuli in the neutral cues room). By testing participants in both rooms, we are able to examine the effects of alcohol-related environmental cues relative to neutral cues. 

The Hoglund Biomedical Imaging Center (HBIC) occupies a free-standing 11,500 square foot research-based imaging facility on the KUMC campus in Kansas City. The HBIC provides outstanding imaging capabilities, including magnetic resonance imaging, magnetoencephalolgraphy, electroencephalography, magnetocardiography, and ultrasound, to complement the existing biomedical research community at KUMC and nearby universities. The HBIC is home to a research-dedicated 3 Tesla Siemens Skyra Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system. 

The Addictions Lab @ KU is home to a suite of iMac workstations and required software (e.g., AFNI, SPM, FreeSurfer) for analysis of fMRI and structural MRI data.

The Addictions Lab @ KU and Dr. Amlung are affiliated with the Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research (PBCAR) at McMaster University. Located within the West 5th Campus of St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton, the PBCAR has over 3000 square feet of research space, including private assessment rooms, a bar lab, kitchenette, student offices, RA workstations, and a conference room for lab meetings. The west 5th campus of SJHH is a $1 billion state-of-the-art psychiatric hospital and research facility that opened in 2014. The PBCAR has an array of sophisticated equipment to support our projects, including tablets and computers for conducting assessments, breathalyzers, smokerlyzers, physiological monitors, neuropsychological tests, and software programs for computerized assessments.

A portion of our RES-CUE study (funded by an R01 grant from NIAAA) is being conducted at the Imaging Research Centre (IRC) at SJHH, which is home to a research-dedicated 3-Tesla MRI scanner and a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner. The IRC has state-of-the-art equipment for conducting functional MRI studies, including a MRI-compatible stimulus presentation system with E-Prime and Presentation software, response boxes, and an audio-visual patient monitoring system. We are also conducting our Intracortical Myelin study (funded by an R21 grant from NIAAA) at the IRC.