Stress, Addiction & Psychopathology Staff
Program Director, Rajita Sinha, Ph.D.
Dr. Rajita Sinha an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine, is the Director of the Research Program on Stress Addiction, and Psychopathology. Her expertise is in clinical research on stress, emotion regulation, drug craving and addictive disorders, chronic effects of drugs of abuse on stress responses and cognitive abilities, and treatment development in substance use disorders. She has a specific interest in sex differences in the above areas and in the development of gender-specific treatments in addictive disorders.
Affiliated Faculty
George Anderson, Ph.D.
Dr. Anderson is a Research Scientist at the Yale Child Studies Center and the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is an expert on neurobiological studies on various neuropsychiatric disorders, ranging from studies on autism, mood disorders, schizophrenia and substance use disorders.
Ned L Cooney, Ph.D.
Dr. Cooney is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine. His areas of expertise include alcohol-tobacco interactions, cue reactivity assessment, and ecological momentary assessment and development of smoking cessation treatments.
Cheryl Doebrick, Ph.D.
Dr. Doebrick is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and the Clinical Director of the Substance Abuse Treatment Unit (SATU). She has experience in behavioral and psychosocial treatments of substance use disorders and clinical care models of addiction. SATU is one of the large outpatient clinical programs in the greater New Haven area and is a major recruitment base for SCOR studies. It provides outpatient treatment services to a large number of addicted individuals participating in research-related projects.
Thomas Kosten, M.D.
Dr. Thomas R. Kosten is a Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine at Yale University Medical School and Deputy Chief of Psychiatry at VA Connecticut. His expertise is in research on clinical neurobiology, medications development and treatment of substance use disorders. His medication contributions include developing a cocaine vaccine, immunotherapy for hallucinogens, buprenorphine for opioid dependence, disulfiram for cocaine dependence, vasodilators for cocaine induced cerebral perfusion defects, and using combined medications with contingency management for opioid and cocaine dependence.
Mary Jeanne Kreek, M.D.
Dr. Kreek is a Professor and Head of the Laboratory on the Biology of Addictive Diseases at Rockefeller University. She is a leading international expert in the area of neurobiology of addictive disorders, specifically in brain stress circuits and HPA regulatory systems in addiction.
John Krystal, M.D.
Dr. Krystal is a Professor of Psychiatry and Pharmacology and Vice Chair for Research in the Deprtment of psychiatry Yale University School of Medicine. He is a leading expert in clinical neuropharmacology of psychiatric illnesses and alcoholism and conducts translational studies in humans to understand brain mechanisms underlying disease and the implications for treatment.
Jaakko Lappalainen, MD, PhD.
Dr. Lappalainen is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine. Areas of research include: Molecular genetic risk factors of alcoholism and drug dependence, sex-specific genetic risk factors of addiction, genetic background of stress sensitivity and cognition, population genetics.
Chiang-shan Ray Li, M.D., Ph.D.
Dr. Chiang-shan Ray Li is an Associate Research Scientist and a BIRCWH scholar in the Yale Department of Psychiatry. He is particularly interested in understanding the neural basis of gender-specific personality traits and their effects on cognitive and affective processing. His current research includes neuroimaging studies on stress-induced brain activation in cocaine users, the effect of sociopathy and alexithymia on stress-induced brain activation and a human psychophysical study exploring response inhibition in patients of substance use disorders.
Robert Malison, M.D.
Dr. Malison is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine and is Director of the Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit (CNRU) at the Connecticut Mental Health Center. He has expertise in clinical neurobiology particularly in the interaction between brain stress circuits, serotonin and dopaminergic systems and other neurotransmitter systems. He is involved in brain imaging studies as well as genetic studies to investigate individual differences in brain responses to various drugs.
Caroyln Mazure, Ph.D.
Dr. Carolyn M. Mazure is a Professor of Psychiatry and the Associate Dean for Academic and Faculty Affairs at the Yale University School of Medicine, and Director of Women's Health Research at Yale. Her research expertise is in affective disorders and prediction of affective illness onset and treatment response. She is also focused on understanding sex differences in health and disease, and her current research uses multivariate models to examine stress as a precipitant for psychiatric disorders and substance abuse in women and men.
Stephanie O'Malley, Ph.D.
Dr. Stephanie O’Malley is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and the Director of the Division of Substance Abuse. She has expertise in laboratory models of alcohol self administration in humans and is a leading expert in pharmacological and psychosocial treatments for alcoholism. She also has expertise in the study of interactions between nicotine and alcohol and in developing treatments for the co-morbidity of smoking and alcoholism.
Bruce Rounsaville, M.D.
Dr. Bruce Rounsaville is a Professor of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine. He is a leading expert in clinical research on substance use disorders and affective disorders. His principal research areas are psychotherapy and psychosocial interventions with substance abusers, the interaction of behavioral treatments and pharmacotherapy of drug abusers and psychiatric epidemiology.
Coordinators
Danielle Comegys, M.S., Research Coordinator
Kathleen Kemp, M.A., SCOR Coordinator and Recruitment Manager
Britten Remus, M.S., Administrative Coordinator
Justin Sleeper, R.N., CNRU Nurse Coordinator
Data Management & Analysis CORE
K. Adam Hong, B.S., Data Manager and Statistician
Cheryl Lacadie, B.S., Neuroimaging Data Manager
Paul Maciejewski, Ph.D., Statistician Consultant
Makram Talih, Ph.D., Statistician
Fuyuze Tokoglu, B.S., fMRI Data Manager
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Keri Tuit, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Scientist
Helen Fox, Ph.D., Research Scientist
Scott Hyman, Ph.D., Research Scientist
Research Assistants
Zubaida Dabre, B.A., Research Assistant I
Anne Kimmerling, B.A., Research Assistant II
Kathleen Ley, B.A., Research Assistant I
Verica Milivojevic, B.S., Research Assistant I
Kristen Siedlarz, B.A., Research Assistant I
Kavita Shah, M.A., Research Assistant II
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