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Principal InvestigatorFunded Research
Agrawal, Arpana NIDA:Delineating the Role of Genetic Influences on Cannabis Involvement

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:Neurocognition, Genetics, and Adolescent Substance Abuse

NIDA:The Functional Neuroanatomy of Response Inhibition Integrating ERP and fMRI Data

Barch, Deanna NIMH:Schizophrenia, Prefrontal Cortex and Emotion Regulation

Belden, Andrew NIMH:Neurobehavioral Correlates of Emotion Regulation in Healthy & Depressed Children

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

NIDA:Genetics Study of Nicotine Dependence in African Americans

Black, Kevin, M.D. NIMH:Training New Investigators in Neuroimaging and in the Neuropsychiatry of Movement

Carissa van den Berk-Clark St. Louis Community/University Health Research Partnerships:Care Communities: A TimeBank Program to Build Supportive Community Networks among Women in Recovery

Carney, Robert, Ph.D. AHRQ:Randomized Controlled Trial of Screening for Depression in Cardiac Outpatients

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

NIDA:Building on Bridging the Gap: Environmental Influences on Teens Substance Use

Chen, Li-Shiun NIDA:Genetic and Environmental Risks for Smoking Characteristics and Cessation

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

Cicero, Theodore, Ph.D. Denver Health:Research Abuse Diversion and Addiction related Surveillance: Survey of key Informants' Patients

NIDA:Paternal Opioid Exposure Imparts Biobehavioral Deficits in Their Offspring

Constantino, John, M.D. Administration for Children and Families:Buffering Toxic Stress: Novel Application of Intensive Group-based Parent Training

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

NICHD:Early Quantitative Characterization of Reciprocal Social Behavior

NICHD:Autistic Traits: Life Course & Genetic Structure

Saint Louis Children's Hospital Foundation:The Synchrony Project

St. Louis County Children's Service Fund:Comprehensive Approach to Unmet Mental Health Needs of Preschool Children in Foster Care, Phase I

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

Cruchaga, Carlos Alzheimer's Association:Exome-Sequencing of Late-onset Alzheimer's Disease Families

McDonnell Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology:Identification of Common and Rare Variants Associated with Alzheimer's Disease

Eisenstein, Sarah NARSAD:Alterations in D2R and Reward-Related Behavior in Schizophrenia

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

Gaffrey, Michael McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience:Functional Brain Activity and Organization in Children with a History of Maternal Depression

NIMH:Functional Brain Network Development in Early Childhood Depression

Goate, Alison, D.Phil. NIA:Use of Endophenotypes in the Search for Alzheimer's Disease Risk Genes

NINDS:Translational Neuroscientist and The Hope Center

Pfizer Biomedical Research Program:Neuroinflammation: Potential Role as a Biomarker and Treatment Target for Alzheimer's Disease, Project 3

Grucza, Richard, Ph.D. American Foundation for Suicide Prevention:Smoking and Suicide: Changes in State Tobacco Policies as Natural Experiments

NIAAA:Alcohol Dependence in African-Americans: A Case-Control Genetic Study

NIDA:Policy as Environment: Long-term Effects of Laws Restricting Youth Substance Use

Hartz, Sarah ICTS:Return of Results in Genetic Studies

NIDA:Novel Use of GWAS for Improved Understanding of Nicotine Dependence

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

NIAAA:MARC: Risk Mechanisms in Alcoholism and Comorbidity

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

NIAAA:Biomedical Training in Alcoholism Research

Hershey, Tamara, Ph.D. NICHD:Tracking Neurodegeneration in Early Wolfram Syndrome

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

NIDDK:Central Dopamine Receptors in Obesity

NINDS:Mapping Mood in the Subthalamic Nucleus in PD

Kristjansson, Sean ABMRF:Alcohol Misuse: Drinking Motives, Familial Risk and Tobacco Use

Lenze, Eric NCCAM:Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction and Cognitive Function in Stress and Aging

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

Lenze, Shannon NIMH:Perinatal Depression: Dyadic-IPT to Improve Health of Mother and Baby

Lessov, Christina ICTS:Cotwin-Control Study of Cigarette Smoking and Brain Reward Processing

NIDA:Reward and Control Processing in Cigarette Smoking Using fMRI

Luby, Joan, M.D. CHADS Coalition for Mental Health:Functional Neuroimaging in Depressed Preschoolers: An Investigation of Affective Neurodevelopment

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

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

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

Mamah, Daniel NARSAD:Neuromorphometry of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

NIMH:Identification of Psychosis-Risk Traits in Africa

NIMH:Neuromorphometry of Psychosis in Bipolar Disorder

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

University Research Strategic Alliance (URSA):Social Networks as External Executive Control in Early Recovery from Alcohol Use Disorders

Mennerick, Steven, Ph.D. McDonnell Center for Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology:A Biosensor for Synaptic Dopamine

NIDA:Nicotinic Modulation of Dopamine Release Studied with a Channel-based Biosensor

NIMH:Receptor Populations Underlying Tonic GABA Currents in Hippocampus

NIMH:Control of Synaptic Glutamate Release

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

NIMH:Measurement of Cardiometabolic Risk in Antipsychotic-treated Children

The Sidney R. Baer Foundation:Expansion of Access to Child Mental Health Triage and Care Coordination

The Sidney R. Baer Foundation:Safety and Efficacy of NMDA Antagonist Treatments for Refractory Depression

The Sidney R. Baer Foundation:BWL Therapist and Training Proposal

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

Olney, John, M.D. NICHD:Anesthesia Toxicity in Neonatal Primate Brain

Price, Rumi Kato, Ph.D. NIDA:T32: Drug Abuse Comorbidity, Prevention & Biostatistics

U.S. Army:Family as a Total Package: Restoring and Enhancing Psychological Health for Citizen Soldiers and Families

Pruett, Jr., John, M.D., Ph.D. NIMH:fcMRI in Infants at High Risk for Autism

Reiersen, Angela NIMH:The Intersection of Autism and ADHD

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

Ristvedt, Stephen, Ph.D. NHLBI:Promoting Uptake of a Usual Source of Care among African American Men

Rogers, Cynthia Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation:Perinatal Behavioral Health Program

Maternal, Child & Family Health Coalition:Washington University Perinatal Behavioral Health Service

Rohrbaugh, John, Ph.D. Department of Defense:IR LDV SYSTEM 001 588/0002/10

U.S. Army:Physiological Measurement Using Laser Doppler Vibrometry - TSWG Task IS-ST-3319

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

Scherrer, Jeffrey, Ph.D. Department of Veterans Affairs:Heart Disease among VA Patients with Depression

Sheline, Yvette, M.D. NIA:Citalopram Decreases Amyloid-B Synthesis in Human CSF

NIA:Citalopram Decreases CSF AB: A Randomized Dose Finding Trial

NIMH:Vascular Depression: Longitudinal Followup

NIMH:fMRI Studies of Emotional Circuitry in Depression

NIMH:Neuroimaging in Depression Treatment Studies

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

Sylvester, Chad AACAP:Stimulus-driven Orienting & the Ventral Attention Network in Children with Anxiety Disorder

Tandon, Mini AACAP:Prenatal Cigarette Exposure and Course of Childhood ADHD

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

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

NIMH:Longitudinal Trends in Comorbidity and Prescription Drug Use in ADHD Families

Wilfley, Denise, Ph.D. NHLBI:Nutrition-Behavioral Cardiovascular Disease Prevention

NIMH:Implementation of Evidence-based Treatments for On-campus Eating Disorders

NIMH:Clinical Research in Eating Disorders and Obesity

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

NIMH:Modulation of Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity