Joshua Gowin PhD earned his PhD in neuroscience from the University of Texas. He currently works at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, where he studies how heavy alcohol use might change the brain's response to reward. Wade Kothmann PhD is a faculty member in the Department of Biology at American University in Washington DC, where he teaches Human Anatomy & Physiology and other courses. Wade completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Synaptic Physiology Section at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.