Dr Craig Smith is Head of the Neuroscience of Stress and Mental Health laboratory, and Lecturer in Pharmacology and Therapeutics, at the School of Medicine, Deakin University, Geelong. His research focuses on the relaxin-3 and opioid neuropeptide systems, and uses a range of pre-clinical anatomical and behavioural approaches to investigate their influence on stress-related behaviours, motivation, feeding, reward, and salt consumption.