Faculty

Dr. Rajita Sinha is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. She is a nationally and internationally known for conducting translational human studies on stress and addiction. She also has expertise in conducting pharmacological and behavioral treatment studies on addiction and is developing new treatments to decrease stress-induced alcohol and drug craving to improve relapse outcomes. Her expertise comes from interdisciplinary training in clinical psychology, biological psychology, pharmacology and most recently neuroimaging.

Projects: Interdisciplinary Research on Stress, Self-Control & Addiction (Project Leader); Stress-induced compulsive behaviors: CRF regulation; Stress, Prefrontal Cortex, and Decision Making; Stress, neurodevelopment and the emergence of addictive behaviors in adolescence; fMRI of Stress & Self-Control in Smoking & Obesity; Norepinephrine Transporter Imaging in Alcohol Dependence and Obesity; Modeling Stress-Precipitated Smoking Lapse for Medication Development; Breaking addictive behaviors via attention and self control exercises; Human Subjects Core: Protocols, Statistics, Collaborative Method Development and Tools

Dr. Anderson is a Research Scientist in Child Psychiatry & Laboratory Medicine at Yale University. Dr. Anderson is an expert on neurobiological studies on various neuropsychiatric disorders, ranging from studies on autism, mood disorders, schizophrenia and substance use disorders. Dr. Anderson has a joint appointment in the Yale Child Study Center and the Department of Laboratory Medicine. Dr. Anderson presently directs a research neurochemistry laboratory in the Child Study Center and has prior experience (1985-2001) as Director of a Core Resource laboratory in the Yale Mental Health Clinical Research Center.

Projects: Norepinephrine Transporter Imaging in Alcohol Dependence and Obesity; Breaking addictive behaviors via attention and self control exercises; Neuroendocrine, Pharmacology and Genetics Core Resource (Project Leader)

Dr. Arnsten is a Professor of Neurobiology at Yale University, School of Medicine and has more than 20 years of experience studying the effects of stress, catecholamines and second messenger signaling on prefrontal cortical function in non-human primates and rodents.

Projects: Ionic and second messenger basis of stress induced prefrontal cortex dysfunction (Project Leader); Stress, Prefrontal Cortex, and Decision Making; Role of endocannabinoid signaling in stress-coping behavior; Stress, neurodevelopment and the emergence of addictive behaviors in adolescence; Modeling Stress-Precipitated Smoking Lapse for Medication Development

Dr. Baumeister is a social psychologist who has been studying the psychology of self for over 30 years. He is currently a Professor of Psychology at Florida State University. He is an internationally renowned social psychologists and a leading authority on self-control and self-regulation. He is one of the most widely read psychologists currently in this area.

Projects: Stress, Prefrontal Cortex, and Decision Making; Breaking addictive behaviors via attention and self control exercises

Dr. Blumberg is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Diagnostic Radiology and Director of the Mood Disorders Research Program at Yale University. She is a psychiatrist with expertise in the application of multimodality magnetic resonance imaging to the study of adolescent brain development and the emergence of emotional disorders. Her ongoing work includes integration of genetic and behavioral measures with imaging study.

Projects: Stress, Prefrontal Cortex, and Decision Making; Stress, neurodevelopment and the emergence of addictive behaviors in adolescence (Project Leader)

Dr. Bockenstedt is a Professor of Internal Medicine/Rheumatology and the Director for Professional Development and Equity for the Yale School of Medicine (YSM) Office for Faculty Affairs. She is an active and accomplished researcher, clinician, and teacher, and has received national and international recognition for her work in Lyme disease. In particular, she serves as a standing member of the NIH/NIAID Immunity & Host Defense Study Section and was recently inducted into two honorary research societies which recognizes physician scientists for contributions to the immunological basis of disease.

Projects: Interdisciplinary Research Education

Dr. Brandt is an Associate Professor of the Yale Center for Medical Informatics (YCMI). She specialized in the design of biomedical databases and the use of metadata and standard vocabularies for clinical research databases. Dr. Brandt has been extensively involved with the development of TrialDB, and with clinical research informatics activities at Yale.

Projects: Human Subjects Core: Protocols, Statistics, Collaborative Method Development and Tools

Dr. Brownell is a Professor in the Yale Department of Psychology and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Psychology. He is also the Director of the Yale Center for Eating & Weight Disorders and Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. His work focuses on the etiology, prevention and treatment of obesity and eating disorders.

Projects: Interdisciplinary Research Education

Dr. Carson is a Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Biomedical Engineering at Yale University. He is Co-Director of the PET Center, and a world-wide leading expert in the field of modeling of novel radiotracers and analysis of PET data.

Projects: Norepinephrine Transporter Imaging in Alcohol Dependence and Obesity

Dr. Cleary is Dean of Public Health, Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and is the C-E.A. Winslow Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Public Health. His research has focused on developing better methods for eliciting individuals' reports about their current situation, medical care, and health status.

Projects: Types of stressors and their impact on health related addictions: smoking, drinking and BMI

Dr. Constable is an Associate Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Neurosurgery at Yale University. He is a leading expert in Biophysics. He is also the Director of MRI Research, Co-Director of Yale Magnetic Resonance Research Center.

Projects: Stress, neurodevelopment and the emergence of addictive behaviors in adolescence; fMRI of Stress & Self-Control in Smoking & Obesity; Human Subjects Core: Protocols, Statistics, Collaborative Method Development and Tools

Dr. DiLeone is an Assistant Professor at Yale University. He is a molecular biologist and neuroscientist who has experience in viral vector technologies. His most recent research focuses on molecular and cellular actions on peptides involved in feeding an interactions between hypothalamic and VTA neuromodulatory systems.

Projects: Stress-induced compulsive behaviors: CRF regulation (Project Leader)

Dr. Ding is the Co-Director of the PET Center, and Director of Radiochemistry at Yale University. She is an investigator with more than 20 years experience in the development of radiotracers.

Projects: Norepinephrine Transporter Imaging in Alcohol Dependence and Obesity

Dr. Duman is a Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology and the Director of the Division of Molecular Psychiatry and Abraham Ribicoff Research Facilities at Yale University. His work focuses on identifying the molecular and cellular adaptations that underlie the actions of psychotropic drugs and stress, including adaptations of receptors, signal transduction proteins, gene transcription factors, and neurotrophic factors.

Dr. Tracy Falba is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Duke University and a Research Scholar at the Center for Health Policy at Duke. Dr. Falba holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford University where she trained in health and labor economics. Her research focuses on health behaviors in aging populations; analyzing determinants and consequences of health behaviors such as smoking using economic frameworks. Currently, she is teaching Health Economics and Public Finance in the economics department at Duke University.

Projects: Types of stressors and their impact on health related addictions: smoking, drinking and BMI

Dr. Fletcher is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale School of Medicine in the Division of Health Policy and Administration. Dr. Fletcher holds a PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he trained in health and labor economics. His research focuses on the long-term consequences of childhood and adolescent mental and physical health problems; analyzing the importance of peer influences on health and education decisions; and modeling risky behavior outcomes such as smoking, premarital sex, and drug use.

Projects: Types of stressors and their impact on health related addictions: smoking, drinking and BMI

Dr. Fulbright is an Associate Professor of Neuroradiology at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is an expert in the area of structural neuroanatomy as related to MRI and has received NICHHD support for MR studies of energy and glucose utilization during cognitive tasks.

Projects: fMRI of Stress & Self-Control in Smoking & Obesity

Dr. Frost is the Director of the PET Center at Yale University School of Medicine. He has extensive experience in developing and conducting studies that involve PET imaging.

Projects: Norepinephrine Transporter Imaging in Alcohol Dependence and Obesity

Dr. Gallo is an Associate Research Scientist in the Division of Health Policy and Administration in the School of Public Health at the Yale University School of Medicine and is a faculty affiliate at the Yale Program on Aging. Dr. Gallo is a health economist whose work combines the fields of economics, gerontology, and social epidemiology. His research focuses on the health effects of unemployment in workers nearing retirement.

Projects: Types of stressors and their impact on health related addictions: smoking, drinking and BMI

Dr. Gelernter is a psychiatrist at Yale University and an internationally-recognized expert in the genetics of addictive disorders. He is an expert in the study of genetic polymorphism, both on a molecular level, and from the perspective of population genetics.

Projects: Stress, neurodevelopment and the emergence of addictive behaviors in adolescence; Norepinephrine Transporter Imaging in Alcohol Dependence and Obesity; Neuroendocrine, Pharmacology and Genetics Core Resource

Dr. Gray is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yale University. He is an expert on assessment of cognition, intelligence, emotion regulation and their interactions.

Projects: fMRI of Stress & Self-Control in Smoking & Obesity; Types of stressors and their impact on health related addictions: smoking, drinking and BMI; Human Subjects Core: Protocols, Statistics, Collaborative Method Development and Tools

Dr. Green is a Professor of Political Science and Director of the Yale Institute for Social and Policy Studies. His research concerns public opinion, voting behavior, campaign finance, hate crime, and rationality.

Projects: Interdisciplinary Research Education

Dr. Grey is the Dean and Annie Goodrich Professor at the Yale School of Nursing. She is a pediatric nurse practitioner with expertise in diabetes. Her research has focused on the natural history of adaptation to chronic illness in childhood, especially children with diabetes mellitus, and the study of behavioral interventions that improve both metabolic control of diabetes and the quality of life in young people and their parents.

Dr. Grilo is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine and Director of its Eating Disorders and Obesity Research Program. Dr. Grilo is a leading expert in the diagnosis, clinical characteristics and treatment of overweight and obese individuals, including the examination of the interaction between tobacco smoking and overeating.

Projects: fMRI of Stress & Self-Control in Smoking & Obesity; Norepinephrine Transporter Imaging in Alcohol Dependence and Obesity; Breaking addictive behaviors via attention and self control exercises; Human Subjects Core: Protocols, Statistics, Collaborative Method Development and Tools

Dr. Hohmann is an Associate Professor at the University of Georgia. She is an expert in stress-induced analgesia and endocannabinoid neurobiology.

Projects: Role of endocannabinoid signaling in stress-coping behavior

Dr. Horvath is a Professor and Head of Comparative Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine. He is an expert in the neurobiology of obesity and eating behaviors.

Projects: Stress-induced compulsive behaviors: CRF regulation

Dr. Kalmar is an Associate Research Scientist at Yale University. She is a neuropsychologist who has experience in the longitudinal study of adolescents, their clinical and neurobehavioral assessments, the emergence of impulsive behaviors and psychopathology, as well as the integration and analysis of behavioral data with imaging data.

Projects: Stress, neurodevelopment and the emergence of addictive behaviors in adolescence

Dr. Kaufman is an Associate Professor at Yale University. She is a psychologist who is an expert in the study of childhood maltreatment and its interaction with genetic factors in influencing brain and behavioral expression of psychopathology.

Projects: Stress, neurodevelopment and the emergence of addictive behaviors in adolescence

Dr. Keenan is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Health Policy and Administration in the School of Public Health at the Yale University School of Medicine Her research interests include three overlapping areas: trends in health insurance coverage and benefits; approaches to improve the quality and value of health care; and patient experiences with health and the health care system, particularly older adults.

Projects: Types of stressors and their impact on health related addictions: smoking, drinking and BMI

Dr. Kim-Cohen is an Assistant Professor at Yale University. She is a psychologist with expertise in the study of childhood maltreatment and its interaction with genetic factors, especially those involved in catecholaminergic transmission, in influencing brain and behavioral expression of psychopathology.

Projects: Stress, neurodevelopment and the emergence of addictive behaviors in adolescence

Dr. Krystal is the Deputy Chairman of Research at the Department of Psychiatry at Yale. He is an international expert in the Clinical neuroscience of Stress related disorders such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders (PTSD) and Alcoholism. His research expertise spans pharmacological challenge paradigms, novel molecular brain imaging approaches and psychiatric genetics.

Projects: Ionic and second messenger basis of stress induced prefrontal cortex dysfunction; Stress, neurodevelopment and the emergence of addictive behaviors in adolescence; Norepinephrine Transporter Imaging in Alcohol Dependence and Obesity

Dr. Lampert is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Cardiology section at Yale University and is a cardiac electrophysiologist with expertise in heart rate variability analysis. She is an expert in measurements of heart rate variability (HRV) and the effects of acute or chronic stress on coronary heart disease.

Projects: fMRI of Stress & Self-Control in Smoking & Obesity; Modeling Stress-Precipitated Smoking Lapse for Medication Development; Human Subjects Core: Protocols, Statistics, Collaborative Method Development and Tools

Dr. Landwirth is the Associate Director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics and the Donaghue Intiative in Biomedical and Behavioral Research Ethics. In addition to extensive work in the area of bioethics and behavioral research, Dr. Landwirth is also working with international foundations to organize education and training programs in various aspects of health care in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.

Dr. Lee is an Associate Professor of Neurobiology at Yale University. He is a neurophysiologist with expertise in multi-electrode recording experiments in non-human primates performing complex cognitive tasks. He has been trained in economics and neuroscience, and is an expert on behavioral and neurobiological (neuroeconomic) studies of decision making.

Projects: Stress, Prefrontal Cortex, and Decision Making (Project Leader); Modeling Stress-Precipitated Smoking Lapse for Medication Development; Types of stressors and their impact on health related addictions: smoking, drinking and BMI

Dr. Levine is Professor of Medicine and Lecturer in Pharmacology at Yale University School of Medicine, Director of the Law, Policy and Ethics Core of Yale University's Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS and Co-Chair of the Executive Committee of Yale University's Interdisciplinary Bioethics Project. In the last 25 years, most of Dr. Levine's research, teaching and publications have been in the field of medical ethics with particular concentration on the ethics of research involving human subjects.

Dr. Maciejewski is the Director of the Biostatistical Modeling Core of Women's Health Research, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine. He is an expert in the areas of instrument development, measurement uncertainty, research design, data analysis and statistical computing. He holds graduate degrees in engineering (MS, PhD, Stanford University), statistics (MS, Stanford University) and philosophy (MA, University of Pittsburgh), and has authored over 50 original research articles in multiple disciplines including engineering, medicine, radiology, psychiatry, psychology, and epidemiology.

Projects: Interdisciplinary Research Education

Dr. Mayes is the Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology, and Coordinator of Early Childhood programs at the Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Mayes is a developmental pediatrician with internationally-recognized expertise in developmental models of emotional and social development.

Projects: Stress, neurodevelopment and the emergence of addictive behaviors in adolescence (Project Leader)

Dr. Mazure is a Professor of Psychiatry, the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at Yale School of Medicine, and a clinical researcher. Her investigative efforts have focused on predictors of illness onset and treatment response in depression and addictive disorders, and her research has particularly targeted stress as a major factor in disease onset and recurrence. Dr. Mazure directs the Department of Psychiatry's Division on Women's Behavioral Health and is the Principal Investigator for Women's Health Research at Yale, the largest university-wide interdisciplinary women's health research program in the country.

Projects: Stress, neurodevelopment and the emergence of addictive behaviors in adolescence; Interdisciplinary Research Education

Dr. McKee is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine. She has extensive experience in the area of substance abuse and dependence, with particular expertise in developing human laboratory models to examine alcohol and tobacco self-administration.

Projects: Ionic and second messenger basis of stress induced prefrontal cortex dysfunction; Stress, Prefrontal Cortex, and Decision Making; Role of endocannabinoid signaling in stress-coping behavior; fMRI of Stress & Self-Control in Smoking & Obesity; Modeling Stress-Precipitated Smoking Lapse for Medication Development; Types of stressors and their impact on health related addictions: smoking, drinking and BMI;

Dr. Miller is a Professor of Anesthesiology & Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and the Director of the Center for Medical Informatics (YCMI) at Yale University. He has extensive experience in collaborations with bioscience and clinical researchers.

Projects: Human Subjects Core: Protocols, Statistics, Collaborative Method Development and Tools

Dr. Nairn is a Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University. He is a leading expert in dopaminergic signal transduction and the structure and function of protein kinases and phosphatases. He is also Co-Director of the Yale/NIDA Neuroproteomics Center.

Projects: Neuroendocrine, Pharmacology and Genetics Core Resource

Dr. Neumeister is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University. He has extensive experience in conducting and analyzing PET imaging studies and has a strong publication record in this field.

Projects: Stress, Prefrontal Cortex, and Decision Making; Stress, neurodevelopment and the emergence of addictive behaviors in adolescence; fMRI of Stress & Self-Control in Smoking & Obesity; Norepinephrine Transporter Imaging in Alcohol Dependence and Obesity

Dr. Nolen-Hoeksema is a Professor of Psychology at Yale University. She has expertise in cognitive vulnerabilities to the development of emotional disorders in adolescents. She has particular interest in the relationship between parent psychopathology and parent-child interactions in the development of child psychopathology. She also has expertise in the study of gender differences in the expression of psychiatric disorders in adolescence.

Projects: Stress, neurodevelopment and the emergence of addictive behaviors in adolescence

Dr. Olausson is a Research Scientist at Yale University. He has an extensive background in behavioral neuroscience/pharmacology in rodents and non-human primates, with a long-standing interest in the pharmacology of antidepressants. He is also experienced in studying signal transduction processes by combining behavioral methodology with pharmacological manipulations or molecular techniques such as genetically modified mice, viral vector-mediated gene transfer and TAT-fusion proteins.

Projects: Stress-induced compulsive behaviors: CRF regulation

Dr. O'Malley is a Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University and an international expert in the area of alcohol and tobacco behaviors. Among her NIH-funded grants, she is the principal investigator on an NIAAA-funded tobacco research center (Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Center - TTURC) that focuses on the relationship between drinking, smoking and eating. She conducted pioneering studies that led to the FDA approval of naltrexone for alcohol dependence (O'Malley et al., 1992; 1996) and has expertise in developing treatments to address co-morbid smoking and weight concerns and alcoholism and eating and weight disorders.

Projects: Stress-induced compulsive behaviors: CRF regulation; fMRI of Stress & Self-Control in Smoking & Obesity; Modeling Stress-Precipitated Smoking Lapse for Medication Development; Breaking addictive behaviors via attention and self control exercises; Types of stressors and their impact on health related addictions: smoking, drinking and BMI

Dr. Picciotto is a Professor of Psychiatry, Neurobiology and Pharmacology at Yale University. She has extensive experience with molecular and behavioral studies of nicotine action.

Projects: Modeling Stress-Precipitated Smoking Lapse for Medication Development

Dr. Piomelli is Professor of Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry and Louis Turner Arnold Chair in the Neurosciences at the University of California, Irvine. He a pharmacologist and biochemist with internationally recognized expertise in endocannabinoid neurobiology.

Projects: Ionic and second messenger basis of stress induced prefrontal cortex dysfunction; Role of endocannabinoid signaling in stress-coping behavior (Project Leader); Neuroendocrine, Pharmacology and Genetics Core Resource

Dr. Potenza is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. He has training in neuroscience, biochemistry and biophysics, addiction psychiatry and fMRI neuroimaging. Dr. Potenza was a founding member of the International Society for Research on Impulsivity and has consulted to the World Health Organization and American Psychiatric Association on defining the boundaries of addiction in preparation for futures editions of International Classification of Diseases (ICD) and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-V).

Projects: Stress-induced compulsive behaviors: CRF regulation; Stress, Prefrontal Cortex, and Decision Making; Stress, neurodevelopment and the emergence of addictive behaviors in adolescence; fMRI of Stress & Self-Control in Smoking & Obesity; Norepinephrine Transporter Imaging in Alcohol Dependence and Obesity; Modeling Stress-Precipitated Smoking Lapse for Medication Development;

Dr. Rajeevan is an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Diagnostic Radiology of Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Rajeevan has expertise in the development of sophisticated image analysis tools for conducting random regression models of brain imaging data, functional connectivity analyses and modeling of braining imaging data with clinical outcomes.

Projects: Human Subjects Core: Protocols, Statistics, Collaborative Method Development and Tools

Dr. Rounsaville is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is an international expert on the diagnosis of addiction and in the development of empirically validated behavioral and pharmacological treatments for substance abuse disorders.

Projects: Ionic and second messenger basis of stress induced prefrontal cortex dysfunction; Breaking addictive behaviors via attention and self control exercises

Dr. Ryan is a Professor of Pediatrics at Yale University. She is a pediatrician with expertise in how timing and rate of puberty influence the development of disorders of emotional and behavioral dyscontrol. She is Director of the Yale Division of Adolescent Medicine.

Projects: Stress, neurodevelopment and the emergence of addictive behaviors in adolescence

Dr. Santos is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Yale University. She is an expert in high-level cognitive processes in non-human primates, such as reasoning and theory of mind.

Projects: Stress, Prefrontal Cortex, and Decision Making

Dr. Sherwin is a Professor of Internal Medicine and current Section Chief of the Section of Endocrinology at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is an expert in the area of endocrinology and metabolism and the principal investigator on Yale's NCRR-funded Clinical and Translational Science Award that focuses on interdisciplinary clinical research. Dr. Sherwin is also Director of the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI) where the new Yale Clinical Translational Science Award is based.

Projects: fMRI of Stress & Self-Control in Smoking & Obesity; Human Subjects Core: Protocols, Statistics, Collaborative Method Development and Tools

Dr. Sindelar is a Professor of Health Economics at Yale's School of Public Health and has an appointment at the Institute of Social and Policy Studies at Yale. She is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research and was previously Associate Dean of Yale's School of Public Health. Dr. Sindelar's primary research is on the economics of substance abuse and labor market impacts of substance use and abuse. She has published on the impact of substance abuse on productivity, educational attainment, gender differences, and related policy issues. She has worked with psychiatrists and psychologists on the methods and practice of assessing the cost-effectiveness and costs-to-benefits of substance abuse treatment.

Projects: Stress, Prefrontal Cortex, and Decision Making; Types of stressors and their impact on health related addictions: smoking, drinking and BMI

Dr. Small is a clinical psychologist and neuroscientist within the JB Pierce Laboratories. She also has an appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry, Surgery, and Psychology at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Small has expertise in the neuroimaging of food-related states and behaviors. Her work has focused on overweight/obese and tobacco smoking subjects.

Projects: fMRI of Stress & Self-Control in Smoking & Obesity

Dr. Sofuoglu is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and the Director of Medications Development at the New England MIRECC. He has had extensive training and experience in both pharmacology and psychiatry. Over the past ten years, he has conducted multiple studies for development of medications for cocaine and nicotine dependence.

Projects: Modeling Stress-Precipitated Smoking Lapse for Medication Development

Dr. Soufer is a Professor of Internal Medicine and Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine Section at Yale University and at the VA CT Healthcare Systems. He is an international expert in the role of stress and psychological factors on acute coronary syndromes. His work focuses on the utilization simultaneous measurements of brain activation and coronary flow with PET imaging. He also has expertise in the neural regulation of cardiovascular functioning.

Dr. Talley is an Associate Professor of Nursing and Director of the Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing Program at the Yale School of Nursing (YSN). Dr. Talley is also an Academic Liaison & Research Nurse at Connecticut Mental Health Center. Her work focuses on increasing healthcare for the underserved mentally ill, psychopharmacology, and evidence based practice.

Projects: Human Subjects Core: Protocols, Statistics, Collaborative Method Development and Tools

Dr. Taylor is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University. She is an expert in behavioral neuroscience, including the study of the biological basis of cognitive-motivational function in animals models of depression and addiction. Her work has focused on the behavioral and molecular consequences of stress exposures and drugs of abuse with an emphasis on persistent neuroadaptations associated with cognition and motivation.

Projects: Ionic and second messenger basis of stress induced prefrontal cortex dysfunction; Stress-induced compulsive behaviors: CRF regulation (Project Leader); Stress, Prefrontal Cortex, and Decision Making; Role of endocannabinoid signaling in stress-coping behavior; Stress, neurodevelopment and the emergence of addictive behaviors in adolescence; Modeling Stress-Precipitated Smoking Lapse for Medication Development;

Dr. Tebes is an Associate Professor in Psychiatry, Child Study Center, and Epidemiology & Public Health at the Yale University School of Medicine. Tebes, a clinical/community psychologist and research methodologist, has extensive expertise in evaluation research methodology and meta-science. Tebes also currently co-directs the NIDA-funded Postdoctoral Training Program in Substance Abuse Prevention Research at Yale where he teaches the core Postdoctoral Seminar in Prevention Research.

Dr. Tice, a social psychologist, is currently a Professor of Psychology at Florida State University. She has an established reputation as an important and influential researcher on self-regulation and other self-processes.

Projects: Breaking addictive behaviors via attention and self control exercises

Victor H. Vroom is the John G. Searle Professor of Organization and Management. He is an international expert on organizations, leadership, team building and decision-making. Professor Vroom's research has focused on issues of motivation, leadership and team building in organizations.

Projects: Interdisciplinary Research Education

Dr. Wang is an Associate Research Scientist at Yale University. She is a psychiatrist who is known for her expertise in MRI methodology. This includes fMRI and connectivity analyses, although she is best known for her innovative diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) work.

Projects: Stress, neurodevelopment and the emergence of addictive behaviors in adolescence; Human Subjects Core: Protocols, Statistics, Collaborative Method Development and Tools

Dr. Yeckel is an Associate Professor of Neurobiology at Yale University. He has been performing in vivo and in vitro electrophysiological recordings in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex (PFC) of rodents and rabbits for nearly 20 years. Currently, his laboratory focuses on cellular and molecular characterization of hippocampal and PFC pyramidal neurons in vitro, using patch-clamp recordings and high-speed and high-spatial resolution calcium fluorescence imaging. Dr. Yeckel has been investigating the role of dopamine in IP3-mediated internal calcium release from intracellular stores in PFC neurons.

Projects: Ionic and second messenger basis of stress induced prefrontal cortex dysfunction (Project Leader)

Dr. Zhang is a Professor of Biostatistics, Child Study, and Statistics at Yale University and an international expert in both statistics and computer sciences. As a leader in biostatistics, he has developed and applied novel statistical methods to the study of complex interplay of genetic, environmental, and psychosocial factors associated with defined health related outcomes. He recently founded the Yale Collaborative Center for Statistics in Science that fosters ID collaborations to understand complex human conditions.

Projects: Human Subjects Core: Protocols, Statistics, Collaborative Method Development and Tools

Dr. Zonana is Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University and Clinical Professor (Adjunct) of Law at Yale Law School. His subjects are law and psychiatry. His many professional positions include Chair of the Bioethics Committee at New Haven Hospital; Director, Medical Director and President of the Medical Staff of the Connecticut Mental Health Center, Yale; and President of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.