Nasir H. Naqvi MD, PhD

Nasir is a psychiatrist and cognitive neuroscientist focused on translational research on addiction. In 2007, he discovered that damage to the insula leads to a profound and abrupt disruption of addiction to cigarette smoking. Since then, he has been trying to understand the role of the insula and related neural systems in the maintenance and treatment of addictive disorders. His work combines clinical and functional neuroimaging methods in order to understand how treatments, especially behavioural treatments, work through their effects on the brain.