PTSD and alcoholism can ruin veterans’ lives. This UTHSC researcher’s solution could one day treat both.
Dr. Bryan Cruz considers this project trying to treat both PTSD and alcoholism a five-chapter study, and he’s just finished Chapter 1. There’s a lot left to explore. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
In April, behavioral neuroscientist Bryan Cruz was in his office at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center when he received major news: He had received a $749,000 grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
Cruz was thrilled but also surprised. Though he’d sought the money to continue his research on PTSD and alcoholism, he had assumed he wouldn’t receive it, for several reasons.
Initially, he’d been expected to submit his application in September or October and hear back within a month. But because he was requesting federal funds amid a government shutdown, he had to wait until December, and by March, he still hadn’t heard anything.
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John Klyce
John Klyce is an enterprise reporter with The Daily Memphian who writes a wide range of in-depth features, as well as profiles about local leaders, scientists, musicians, artists, entrepreneurs, and anyone else doing exciting and important work in this city. He previously spent four years with the Memphis Business Journal, where he covered public companies, startups, and innovation, and a fifth year with The Commercial Appeal, where he covered education, and chronicled how gun violence and poverty were affecting Memphis youth and their families. He has also been a fellow with the Institute for Citizens and Scholars. John has a B.A. in journalism from the University of Memphis and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Boston University.
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