Atika Khurana, University of Oregon (IMAGE)

University of Oregon

Atika Khurana, University of Oregon

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Atika Khurana of the University of Oregon has been exploring the behaviors of young people in an at-risk urban population. Her latest National Institutes of Health-funded study found adolescents who have strong working memory are better equipped to control and curb their early experiments with drugs.

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University of Oregon

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