Joyce Besheer, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Dr. Besheer’s research interests focus on understanding the neural mechanisms that contribute to alcohol use disorders and drug addiction. One of her areas of interest is how stress can impact … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Psychiatry |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Behavior, Mental illness, Neurobiology, Pharmacology |
Fulton Crews, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Mental disease, including addiction and neurodegeneration, are central themes of Dr. Crews’s research. Addiction has many components, one of which is long-term changes in gene expression and structure … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Pharmacology, Psychiatry |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Behavior, Cell Signaling, Neurobiology |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Psychiatry |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Behavior, Clinical Trials, Translational Medicine |
Melissa Herman, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My research focuses on how exposure to drugs of abuse like alcohol, vaporized nicotine, or psychedelic compounds alter neuronal network function via both intrinsic and extrinsic forms of plasti … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Neuroscience Center, Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Behavior, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Physiology, Systems Biology |
Clyde Hodge, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our preclinical research is based on the concept that drugs of abuse gain control over behavior by hijacking molecular mechanisms of neuroplasticity within brain reward circuits. To understand this pr … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Pharmacology, Psychiatry |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Behavior, Bioinformatics, Cell Signaling, Molecular Biology, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Systems Biology |
Thomas Kash, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our work is focused on understanding the relationship between brain function and behavioral pathology associated with substance use disorder. Alcohol uae disorder, chronic pain and stress. |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Translational Medicine |
Zoe McElligott, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Research in the McElligott lab focuses on the circuits and plasticity that underlie the development and manifestation of psychiatric illness, specifically disorders on the affective spectrum including … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Pharmacology, Psychiatry |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Physiology |
Scott Parnell, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My research interests are in understanding the detrimental effects of ethanol and other drugs of abuse, such as cannabinoids, during early development, the underlying mechanisms of these birth … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities (CIDD), Cell Biology & Physiology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Neurobiology, Toxicology |
Donita Robinson, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My scientific expertise lies in neural dynamics of corticostriatal circuits during motivated behavior and drug exposure in animal models. My current research focuses on the brain regions that orchestr … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Graduate Education, Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Behavior, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Physiology, Systems Biology |
Ian Shih, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our research group is interested in developing and applying magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technologies to study brain functional circuits and networks using animal models. We also spend major effor … Read more |






