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Addiction Research

Stark Neurosciences Research Institute faculty have a wide range of research programs focused on the cellular, molecular and behavioral correlates of addiction to alcohol, cannabis, methamphetamine, nicotine, opiates and food. Investigators are interested in the mechanisms and consequences of alcoholism, drug addiction and obesity.

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism-funded Indiana Alcohol Research Center, which supports thematic research in the genetic determinants of alcoholism, is comprised of both Stark Neurosciences Research Institute investigators and collaborators from the Addictions Neuroscience Graduate Program, offered through the IUPUI Purdue School of Science.

Stark Neurosciences Research Institute research areas include, but are not limited to, behavioral pharmacology, electrophysiology, microdialysis, genetics, novel human interventions, alcohol administration paradigms (both preclinical and human) and human behavioral and neuroimaging studies.

Faculty Investigators

Zachary W. Adams, MS, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Brady K. Atwood, PhD

Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology

AJ Baucum, PhD

Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology

Richard L. Bell, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

R A. Chambers, MD

Professor of Psychiatry

Howard J. Edenberg, PhD

Distinguished Professor

Eric A. Engleman, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Jill C. Fehrenbacher, PhD

Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology

Tatiana Foroud, PhD

Executive Associate Dean for Research Affairs

Woody Hopf, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry

Leslie A. Hulvershorn, MD

Chair, Department of Psychiatry

Tom Hummer, PhD

Assistant Research Professor of Psychiatry

Jorge V. Jose

James H. Rudy Professor of Physics, College of Arts & Sciences, IU Bloomington

David A. Kareken, PhD

Professor of Neurology

Christopher C. Lapish, PhD

Professor of Anatomy, Cell Biology & Physiology

Yao-Ying Ma, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology

John I. Nurnberger, MD, PhD

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Brandon Oberlin, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Martin H. Plawecki, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

Patrick L. Sheets, PhD

Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology

William A. Truitt, PhD

Associate Professor of Anatomy, Cell Biology & Physiology

Bryan K. Yamamoto, MS, PhD

Robert B. Forney Professor Emeritus of Toxicology

Karmen K. Yoder, PhD

Professor of Radiology & Imaging Sciences

Feng C. Zhou, PhD

Professor Emeritus of Anatomy & Cell Biology

Stephen L. Boehm, PhD

Professor of Psychology

Alexy Kuznetsov, PHD

Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences

Leonid Rubchinsky, PhD

Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences

Charles R. Goodlett, PhD

Chancellor's Professor of Psychology

Marian L. Logrip, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychology

cristine czachowski

Cristine Czachowski, PhD

Professor of Psychology

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