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Funded Research Studies

 

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

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

NIDA:Cannabis and Tobacco Involvement: A Twin Study

Anokhin, Andrey, Ph.D. NIAAA:College Drinking: A Twin Study

NIAAA:Neurocognitive Consequences of Underage Drinking

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:Mapping Abnormal Neurodevelopment in Schizophrenia

NIMH:Schizophrenia, Prefrontal Cortex and Emotion Regulation

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

NHGRI:Study of Addiction: Genetics and Environment

NIAAA (SUNY):Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism

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

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

Botteron, Kelly, M.D. CHADS Coalition for Mental Health:Cortical Integrity of Insular Cortex in Early Onset Major Depression: A Twin MRI and DTI Study

NICHD:MRI Study of Normal Brain Development: Clinical Coordination Center

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

NIAAA:A New Annual Alcohol Research Form: Guze Symposium

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

Cicero, Theodore, Ph.D. Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation:Characteristics of Prescription Drug Abusers

NIDA:Biomedical Research Training in Drug Abuse

Cloninger, C. Robert, M.D. NIMH:Molecular Genetics of Schizophrenia

Constantino, John, M.D. CDC:Metropolitan St. Louis Autism & Devel Disabilities Surveillance & Epidemiology

NICHD:Autistic Traits: Life Course and Genetic Structure

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

NIDA:Prescription Drug Misuse, Abuse and Dependence

NIDA:Prescription Drug Misuse, Abuse and Dependence

NIDA:T32: Drug Abuse Comorbidity, Prevention & Biostatistics

NIMH:Psychiatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics (NRSA)

NINR:Enrolling and Retaining Female Offenders in HIV Trials

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

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

NIEHS:Neurodevelopmental Apoptosis

Freedland, Kenneth, Ph.D. NHLBI:Effects of Depression on Short-Term Recovery from MI

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

Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation:rTMS Maintenance Treatment After ECT

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

NIMH:Phenomenology and Course of Pediatric Bipolar Disorders

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 AB and Risk for Alzheimer's Disease

Fidelity Foundation:Pittsburgh Compound B: A Quantitative Endophenotype for Genetic Studies of AD Risk

McDonnell Center for Higher Brain Function:Pittsburgh Compound B: A Quantitative Endophenotype for Genetic Studies of AD Risk

NIA:Genomic Search for Susceptibility to Alzheimer's Disease

NIH/Fogarty:The Role of Cholesterol in Alzheimer's Disease

Grucza, Richard, Ph.D. NIDA:Longitudinal Studies in Personality and Substance Abuse

Haupt, Dan, M.D. NIMH:Metabolic Effects of Valproate and Antipsychotic Therapy

Heath, Andrew, D.Phil. NIAAA:Genetic Epidemiologic Models of Alcohol Abuse

NIAAA:Biomedical Training in Alcoholism Research

NIAAA:Molecular Epidemiology of Alcoholism 3 - EDAC Families

NIAAA:Midwest Alcoholism Research Center: Genetic Epidemiology of Alcoholism & Comorbidity

NIAAA:Parental Alcoholism & Child Environmental Risk

NICHD:GxE in Early Childhood: Twin Mothers

Hershey, Tamara, Ph.D. NIMH:Mapping Mood in the Subthalamic Nucleus in PD

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

Hoffer, Lee, Ph.D. National Science Foundation:Merging Agent-based Modeling Techniques and Ethnography: A New Analytic Tool for Studying Illicit Drug Use Behaviors, Markets and Economies

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

NIMH:Pharmacotherapy of Latelife Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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

NARSAD:Follow-up and Neuroimaging of Melancholic Depressed Preschoolers at School Age

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

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

NIMH:Treatment of Early Age Mania (TEAM)

Lustman, Patrick, Ph.D. NIDDK:Depression and Insulin Resistance in Type 2 Diabetes

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

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

NINDS:Axonal Signaling in the Hippocampus

Moulder, Krista, Ph.D. American Cancer Society:Excitability and GABA Signaling in Prostate Neuroendocrine Tumor Cells

NIDA:Homeostatic Effects of Activity on Neurotransmission

Nelson, Elliot, M.D. NIAAA:Childhood Trauma, Parental Alcoholism, and Comorbidity

NIDA:Opioid Dependence: Candidate Genes and G x E Effects

Newcomer, John, M.D. NARSAD:Effects of Antipsychotic Medications on Energy Intake and Expenditure

NIMH:Metabolic Effects of Antipsychotics in Children

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

NIMH:Follow-Up of Vietnam Veterans at Risk for Suicide

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

Rice, John, Ph.D. NIMH:Collaborative Depression Study

NIMH:A Collaborative Genomic Study of Bipolar Disorder

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

Sheline, Yvette, M.D. NARSAD:Decreased White Matter Connectivity in Late Life Depression

NIMH:PET Amyloid Plaque Imaging in Late Life Depression

NIMH:Vascular Depression: Longitudinal Followup

NIMH:Neuroimaging in Depression Treatment Studies

Striley, Catherine, Ph.D. International Institute of St. Louis (Dept. of Justice):St. Louis Services for Victims of Human Trafficking

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

Todd, Richard D., Ph.D., M.D. NIAAA:Mutation Screening of Nicotine and Alcohol Dependence

NIAAA:Molecular Epidemiology of Alcoholism 2 - Big Sibships

NIMH:Molecular Epidemiology of Inattentive ADHD

NIMH:Molecular Genetics of Inattention in Australia

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

Wilfley, Denise, Ph.D. NCRR:A Randomized Controlled Trial for Parents of Young Overweight Children

NIMH:Clinical Research in Eating Disorders and Obesity

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

Zorumski, Charles, M.D. NIMH:Modulation of Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity