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The Department of Pharmacology, Toxicology and Neuroscience at the LSU Health Sciences Center is composed of twelve faculty plus four joint-appointed faculty from the Departments of Psychiatry and Biochemistry.

A major emphasis of the Department is in the areas of neuropharmacology, neuroscience, and toxicology, with research in neurotransmitter receptor function, stress, oxidative mechanisms of toxicity and in molecular regulation of toxicity and apoptosis. The Department also emphasizes drug and alcohol abuse research and maintains an NIH training grant for this program of study.