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Funded Research Studies

 

Principal InvestigatorFunded Research
Agrawal, Arpana ABMRF:Gene x Environment Influences on Quantitative Indices of Alcohol Consumption

NIDA:Characterizing the 3-year Course of Cannabis Involvement in NESARC

NIDA:Cannabis and Tobacco Involvement: A Twin Study (Supplement)

NIDA:Cannabis and Tobacco Involvement: A Twin Study

Anokhin, Andrey, Ph.D. NIAAA:Neurocognitive Consequences of Underage Drinking

NIDA:Linking Genetics, Brain, and Behavior to Understand Addiction Vulnerability

NIDA:Neurocognitive Effects of Nicotine Deprivation and Dopamine Genes

NIDA:Neurocognitive Predictors of Smoking Cessation

NIDA:Neurocognition, Genetics, and Adolescent Substance Abuse

Barch, Deanna NARSAD:Developmental Disturbances in the Neural Systems Supporting Working Memory as Endophenotypic Markers of Risk for Schizophrenia

NIMH:1/5-Cognitive Neuroscience Task Reliability & Clinical Applications Consortium

NIMH:Mapping Abnormal Neurodevelopment in Schizophrenia

Bierut, Laura, M.D. NCI:The Collaborative Genetic Study of Nicotine Dependence

NHGRI:Study of Addiction: Genetics and Environment

NIDA:Genetics Study of Nicotine Dependence in African Americans

NIDA:Case Control Candidate Gene Study of Addiction

NIDA:Human Genetics of Addiction: A Study of Common and Specific Factors

Black, Kevin, M.D. NIMH:Dopaminergic Effects on Cortical Function in Tourette's

NIMH:Quantitative Dopamine Receptor Pharmacodynamics from fMRI

Tourette Syndrome Association:Finding Tics in the Community Without Putting a Doctor on Every Corner

Botteron, Kelly, M.D. NICHD:MRI Study of Normal Brain Development: Clinical Coordination Center

NIMH:Novel Cortical Limbic Analysis in Twins Discordant for ADHD

Bucholz, Kathleen, Ph.D. NIAAA:Alcoholism: Epidemiologic High Risk Family Study - MOFAM

NIAAA:A New Annual Alcohol Research Form: Guze Symposium

NIAAA:Alcoholism: Epidemiologic High Risk Family Study - MOFAM

NIDA:Gene Environment in Outcomes of Offspring of Twins with Substance Use Disorders

Carney, Robert, Ph.D. NHLBI:Omega-3 for Depression and Other Cardiac Risk Factors

NHLBI:Cardiac Risk Markers and Unremitting Depression in Acute Coronary Syndrome

Cavazos-Rehg, Patricia NIDA:Substance Use Histories and Risky Sexual Behaviors among Young Persons

Chen, Li-Shiun Global Research Awards for Nicotine Dependence:Nicotine Dependence: Synthesizing Genetic and Environmental Risks

Chorbov, Vesselin NIAAA:Behavior and Epigenetic Effects of Chronic Alcohol Exposure in Rats and Human DNA

Cicero, Theodore, Ph.D. NIDA:Biomedical Research Training in Drug Abuse

NIMH:Molecular Genetics of Inattention in Australia

Constantino, John, M.D. Autism Speaks:Ethnicity and the Elucidation of Autism Endophenotypes

CDC:Metropolitan St. Louis Autism & Devel Disabilities Surveillance & Epidemiology

NICHD:Autistic Traits: Life Course & Genetic Structure

The Simons Foundation:Brain Circuitry in Simplex Autism

The Simons Foundation:The Simons Foundation Simplex Autism Resource: Saint Louis, Missouri Families

Conway, Charles NIMH:Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Depression: PET Studies

Cottler, Linda, Ph.D. Fogarty International Center:Indo-US Fogarty Training Program in Behavioral Disorders

NHLBI:Web System to Increase Research Participation of Underrepresented Populations

NIDA:T32: Drug Abuse Comorbidity, Prevention & Biostatistics

NIDA:Prescription Drug Misuse, Abuse and Dependence

NIDA:Transformative Approach to Reduce Research Disparities Towards Drug Users

NIDA:Prescription Drug Misuse, Abuse and Dependence

Crawford, Devon NINDS:Induction Pathways in Hippocampal Adaptive Synaptic Plasticity

de Erausquin, Gabriel, M.D., Ph.D. Fogarty International Center:Investigation on the Movement Abnormalities & Genetics of Schizophrenia (IMAGeS)

NARSAD:Imaging of Dopaminergic Networks in a Unique Population of Untreated Patients with Schizophrenia

NIMH:Genetics of Parkinsonism in a Special Population of Untreated Schizophrenia

Philip Morris USA, Inc.:Genetic Studies of Susceptibility to Nicotine Dependence in a Special Population of Antipsychotic-naive Patients with Schizophrenia

Duncan, Alexis NHLBI:Overweight/Obesity and Smoking in Young Adult Female Twins

Fallucco, Elise CHADS Coalition for Mental Health:Training Primary Physicians to Identify Adolescent Depression & Suicide Risk Using Standardized Patients (SPs)

Farber, Nuri, M.D. NICHD:Glucocorticoids and Apoptosis of Cerebellar Neural Progenitor Cells

NIEHS:Neurodevelopmental Apoptosis

Freedland, Kenneth, Ph.D. NCI:Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research Annual Conference

NHLBI:Treatment of Functional Impairment in Patients with Heart Failure and Comorbid Depression

Garcia, Keith, M.D. Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation:rTMS Pilot Research Study

Geller, Barbara, M.D. NIMH:Treatment of Early Age Mania (TEAM)

Goate, Alison, D.Phil. Alzheimer's Association:Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration in FTLD-U

American Health Assistance Foundation:Identification of Functional Alleles that Influence Cerebrospinal Fluid Levels of A-beta and Risk for Alzheimer's Disease

NIA:Genomic Search for Susceptibility to Alzheimer Disease

NINDS:Translational Neuroscientist and The Hope Center

Grucza, Richard, Ph.D. NIAAA:Alcohol Dependence in African-Americans: A Case-Control Genetic Study

NIDA:Early Substance Use and Addiction: Genes, Environment, and Epidemiology

Haupt, Dan, M.D. NARSAD:Direct, Noninvasive Measurements of Cardiometabolic Risk in Treated Schizophrenia Patients

Heath, Andrew, D.Phil. NIAAA:Gene-Environment Interplay in Alcoholism

NIAAA:MARC: Risk Mechanisms in Alcoholism and Comorbidity

NIAAA:Molecular Epidemiology of Alcoholism 2 - Big Sibships

NIAAA:Alcohol Use Disorder in Young Women: Genetic Epidemiology: MOAFTS Wave 7

NIAAA:Biomedical Training in Alcoholism Research

NIAAA:Parental Alcoholism & Child Environmental Risk

NICHD:GxE in Early Childhood: Twin Mothers

Hershey, Tamara, Ph.D. NIDDK:Glycemic Control, Brain Structure and Cognition in Youth with T1DM

NIDDK:Glycemic Control, Brain Structure and Cognition in Youth with T1DM

NIDDK:Glycemic Control, Brain Structure and Cognition in Youth with T1DM

NINDS:Mapping Mood in the Subthalamic Nucleus in PD

Hinrichs, Tony, Ph.D. NIAAA:Statistical Methods for the Genetics of Alcoholism

Knopik, Valerie NIDA:Externalizing Behavior: Genetics x Prenatal Nicotine

Lenze, Eric NIMH:2/3 Incomplete Response in Late-life Depression: Getting to Remission

NIMH:Risk Genes for Late-Life Depression after Hip Fracture

NIMH:Pharmacotherapy of Latelife Generalized Anxiety Disorder

NIMH:Enhanced Acute Medical Rehabilitation for Late-life Depression After Hip Fracture

Lessov, Christina NIDA:Reward and Control Processing in Cigarette Smoking Using fMRI

Siteman Cancer Center:Reward and Control Processing in Cigarette Smoking in African Americans

Luby, Joan, M.D. CHADS Coalition for Mental Health:Functional Neuroimaging in a Depressed Preschool Population Pre and Post Treatment

NARSAD:Seratonin Transporter Polymorphisms and Course of Preschool Onset Depression

NIMH:Phenomenology and Course of Pediatric Bipolar Disorders

NIMH:Treatment of Early Age Mania (TEAM)

NIMH:Early Intervention in Depression: Dyadic Emotion Development Therapy for Preschool Children

NIMH:Preschool Mood Disorders: Developmental Continuity and School Age Outcomes

Lustman, Patrick, Ph.D. NIMH:Improving Depression Treatment Outcomes with an Insulin-Sensitizing Agent

Lynskey, Michael, Ph.D. NIDA:Cannabis and Other Illicit Drug Use: A Twin Study

NIDA:Cannabis Use, Abuse and Dependence: Exploring Phenotypes

Madden, Pamela A.F., Ph.D. NIDA:The Genetics of Vulnerability to Nicotine Addictions

Mathews, Jose NARSAD:Characterizing Human Taste Reward Function during Olanzapine Treatment Using fMRI

NIMH:Primary Reward Mechanism Dysfunction in Depression

McCutcheon, Vivia NIAAA:Predictors of Alcohol Recovery and Relapse Among Female Drunk Drivers

Mennerick, Steven, Ph.D. NIMH:Control of Synaptic Glutamate Release

NINDS:Axonal Signaling in the Hippocampus

Moulder, Krista, Ph.D. McDonnell Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology:Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Anti-NMDA Receptor Encephalitis

NIDA:Homeostatic Effects of Activity on Neurotransmission

Nelson, Elliot, M.D. NIDA:Opioid Dependence: Candidate Genes and G x E Effects

Newcomer, John, M.D. NIMH:Metabolic Effects of Antipsychotics in Children

Nicol, Ginger NARSAD:Biomarkers of Cardiometabolic Risk in Children Treated with Antipsychotics

Noguchi, Kevin NIMH:Glucocorticoid and Stress Induced Cerebellar Neural Progenitor Cell Apoptosis

Olney, John, M.D. NICHD:Acute Brain Injury, Mechanisms and Consequences

NICHD:Anesthesia-Induced Developmental Neuroapoptosis in non-Human Primates

NIDA:Developmental Brain Damage by Drugs of Abuse

Pergadia, Michele, Ph.D. NIDA:Refining Phenotypic Measures of Nicotine Withdrawal

Price, Rumi Kato, Ph.D. NIDA:Disentangling Substance Use and Psychiatric Disorder Comorbidity for Future HuGE

Pruett, Jr., John, M.D., Ph.D. NIMH:Behavioral Pilot for an Imaging Study of Social Attention Deficits in Autism

Reich, Gwendolyn, Ph.D. NIMH:Adolescents at High Risk for Familial Bipolar Disorder

Reiersen, Angela NIMH:The Intersection of Autism and ADHD

Rice, John, Ph.D. NIMH:Research Training in Clinical Sciences

Ristvedt, Stephen, Ph.D. NCI:Dispositional Influences on Early Detection Behaviors

Rohrbaugh, John, Ph.D. U.S. Army:Remote Detection of Deception Using Laser Doppler Vibrometry

Saccone, Nancy NIDA:Human Genetic Variation in Smoking and Addiction Risk

Saccone, Scott, Ph.D. NIDA:Design and Interpretation of SNP Association Studies of Addiction

Sheline, Yvette, M.D. NIMH:Vascular Depression: Longitudinal Followup

NIMH:fMRI Studies of Emotional Circuitry in Depression

NIMH:Neuroimaging in Depression Treatment Studies

NIMH:Abnormality of Emotional Circuitry as a Biomarker in PTSD

Suarez, Brian, Ph.D. Urological Research Foundation:Studies on the Genetics of Prostate Cancer and Follow-up of Men Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer in the PSA Study

Todorov, Alexandre, Ph.D. NIDA:Genetic Epidemiology of Opioid Dependence in Bulgaria

NIMH:Molecular Basis of Selected GxE Effects in Combined Type ADHD

Wilfley, Denise, Ph.D. NICHD:Childhood Obesity Treatment: A Maintenance Approach

NIMH:Clinical Research in Eating Disorders and Obesity

NIMH:Family Therapy and Fluoxetine in the Treatment of Adolescent Anorexia Nervosa

NIMH:2/2 Preventing Eating Disorders and Reducing Comorbidity

Zorumski, Charles, M.D. NIAAA:Ethanol, Neurosteroids & Hippocampal Plasticity

NIMH:Modulation of Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity