Area of research
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience · Behavioral Neuroscience
Research interest
Research interests include Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Stress Responses and Cortisol, Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies.
Associations Among Stressful Events, Social Support, and Alcohol Use in Women and Men.
Sex-specific neural activation to stress and alcohol cues in high-risk drinkers: links between orbitofrontal circuits, alcohol craving, and future drinking.
Neighborhood Deprivation Is Associated with Accelerated Epigenetic Aging Via Greater Individual Adversity
Network state dynamics underpin basal craving in a transdiagnostic population.
Sex and Hormonal Effects on Drug Cue Reactivity and Its Regulation in Human Addiction
Positive affect amplifies integration within episodic memories in the laboratory and the real world.
Pregnenolone effects on parasympathetic response to stress and alcohol cue provocation in treatment-seeking individuals with alcohol use disorder.
Development of the Yale pain stress test to elicit a multi-level stress response and assess stress adaptability.
Integrating breathing-based stress reduction to address stress and alcohol misuse: A novel digital intervention delivered via telehealth and smartphone application.
Assessing Autonomic Regulation Under Stress with the Yale Pain Stress Test in Social Drinking and Alcohol Use Disorder.
Dynamic brain mechanisms supporting salient memories under cortisol.
The NMDAR positive allosteric modulator NYX-783 selectively blocks opioid withdrawal conditioned place aversion in mice
Stress and substance use disorders: risk, relapse, and treatment outcomes.
Parameter Space and Potential for Biomarker Development in 25 Years of fMRI Drug Cue Reactivity
Parameter Space and Potential for Biomarker Development in 25 Years of fMRI Drug Cue Reactivity: A Systematic Review.
Neural Correlates of Stress and Alcohol Cue-Induced Alcohol Craving and of Future Heavy Drinking: Evidence of Sex Differences.
Childhood adversity, accelerated GrimAge, and associated health consequences.
Brain correlates and functional connectivity linking stress, autonomic dysregulation, and alcohol motivation.
A thematic analysis of stress, substance-cue, and neutral/relaxing events to inform approaches for improving treatment among Black adults who use substances.
Stability and Reliability of Repeated Plasma Pregnenolone Levels After Oral Pregnenolone Dosing in Individuals with Cocaine Use Disorder: Pilot Findings.
Sex differences in binge drinking-related higher morning cortisol levels and in prospective association with future alcohol intake.
Low-calorie diet-induced weight loss is associated with altered brain connectivity and food desire in obesity.
Substance use patterns, quantities, and associated risk factors in women with polysubstance misuse.
Evidence that personalized racial stress procedures elicit a stress response and increases alcohol craving among Black adults with alcohol use disorder: A laboratory pilot study.
Mega-analysis of the brain-age gap in substance use disorder: An ENIGMA Addiction working group study.
Neural responses to stress and alcohol cues in individuals with pain with and without alcohol use disorder.
Mindfulness-based therapy for insomnia in Black women: a pilot randomized controlled trial.
Drawbacks to Strengthening Neural Salience Encoding: A Link Between Cortisol and Risky Drinking.
Cumulative adversity and emotion dysregulation effects on suicidal ideation and attempts in a community sample.
Effects of prazosin treatment on liver enzymes are moderated by alcohol withdrawal symptoms in individuals with alcohol use disorder.