Expertise

Clinical Interests: Care of adolescents and adults with dual diagnoses (mental illness and substance disorders)

Research: Animal models of mental illness and addictions; behavioral neuroscience; motivation; neural network modeling

Our work in the Laboratory for Translational Neuroscience of Dual Diagnosis & Development focuses on exploring causal mechanisms in the brain responsible for extremely high rates of addictions co-morbidity in mental illness. Because both addictions and mental illnesses are in large part neurodevelopmental disorders in which adolescence is a critical transition phase, we are also interested in how the adolescent brain re-wires normally, or abnormally, in mental illnesses as intertwined with the early stages of drug addictions.


Expertise:

  • Addiction Research
  • Psychiatric Disorders Research
Past Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Stark Neurosciences Research Institute, Centers and Institutes, Indiana University School of Medicine

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine (past)

Associate Professor, Institute of Psychiatric Research, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine (past)

Assistant Professor, Institute of Psychiatric Research, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, School of Medicine (past)

Communities
Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Neuroscience
Degrees
MD, Duke University, Medicine and Neuropsychiatry, 1996
BS, Centre College, Chemical Physics, 1991