Faculty & Research

Charlotte Boettiger, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies

Department of Psychology Lab

Biomedical Research Imaging Center

Office | 304B Davie Hall, CB#3270

Email | cab@email.unc.edu

Lab Website |Cognition and Addiction Biopsychology

Research Interests

The Boettiger lab studies the problem of addiction from a cognitive perspective. We are interested in determining how certain cognitive processes differ in people with a personal or family history of addiction. We are also interested in determining the cognitive effects of addiction treatments and the brain mechanisms of such effects. Our ultimate goal is to make discoveries that improve treatment and prevention of this common and debilitating neurobehavioral disorder.

Our techniques include combining discrete cognitive tasks in human subjects with neuroimaging, pharmacology, physiological monitoring, and genetics.

Center Line Articles

Boettiger Joins CAS Faculty (Vol 19, No 3)

Recent Publications

Click here for a full list of publications from PubMed

Impulsivity, frontal lobes and risk for addiction. Crews FT, Boettiger CA. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2009 Sep;93(3):237-47.

Now or Later? An fMRI study of the effects of endogenous opioid blockade on a decision-making network. Boettiger CA, Kelley EA, Mitchell JM, D'Esposito M, Fields HL. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2009 Sep;93(3):291-9.

Boettiger CA, Mitchell JM, Tavares VC, Robertson M, Joslyn G, D'Esposito M, Fields HL. Immediate reward bias in humans: fronto-parietal networks and a role for the catechol-O-methyltransferase 158(Val/Val) genotype. J Neurosci. 2007 Dec 26;27(52):14383-91.

Mitchell JM, Tavares VC, Fields HL, D'Esposito M, Boettiger CA. Endogenous opioid blockade and impulsive responding in alcoholics and healthy controls. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2007 Feb;32(2):439-49.

Mitchell JM, Fields HL, D'Esposito M, Boettiger CA. Impulsive responding in alcoholics. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2005 Dec;29(12):2158-69.

Boettiger CA, D'Esposito M. Frontal networks for learning and executing arbitrary stimulus-response associations. J Neurosci. 2005 Mar 9;25(10):2723-32.