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COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE LABORATORY
Mission
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To conduct integrated cognitive psychology and neuroscience research aimed at understanding alcohol and other drug effects in humans and advancing the treatment of addictive behaviors.
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To provide training for undergraduate and graduate students in basic and applied human neuroscience research.
Areas of active research include:
- neuropsychological models of addictions treatment outcome
- neuropsychological and cognitive assessment in normal and psychiatric populations
- magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and neuropsychological assessment of children diagnosed with autism spectrum and bipolar disorders and normally developing children
- alcohol challenge effects on implicit and explicit memory
- memory and psychophysiological arousal at varying developmental stages of drug exposure
Grants
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Alcohol, memory and affective regulation, National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), 7/1/04 to 6/30/09.
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Memory processes, emotional regulation and developmental stage of drug exposure , a Research Component of "Drug abuse prevention during developmental transitions, " a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center, National Institutes of Health (NIH), 10/01/03 to 9/30/08.
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Complex Brain Behavior Relations in Alcohol Studies, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Research Career Award (K02), National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), 8/1/01 to 7/31/06.
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Neurocognitive Impairment and Alcohol Use Disorders, NIH, NIAAA, 5/1/00 to 4/31/04. (In no-cost extension year.)
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Subtyping in Autism/PDD Spectrum Disorders, New Jersey Governor's Council on Autism, 8/1/00 to 7/31/03; K02 and Rutgers University, Ongoing.
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Neurological and Neuropsychological Concomitants of Bipolar Disorder in Youth, Stanley Foundation, 8/1/00 to 7/31/03. K02 and Rutgers University, Ongoing.
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Alcohol's Dissociation of Implicit and Explicit Memory Processes: Behavioral and Functional Neuroimaging Studies. Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation, 6/1/01 to 5/31/03.
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Reinvest in Rutgers Phase III Program, Equipment Grant, 2000
- Reinvest in Rutgers Phase III Program, Equipment Grant, 2002
Faculty and Students:
- Marsha E. Bates, Ph.D., Laboratory Director
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- Robert J. Pandina, Ph.D., Center Director
- Suchismita Ray, Ph.D., Research Associate, Cognitive Psychology
- Jennifer Buckman, Ph.D., Research Associate, Behavioral Neuroscience
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- Gianna Locascio, B.S., Graduate Student, School Psychology
- Anthony Pawlak, M.S., Graduate Student, Educational Statistics and Measurement
- Tomoko Udo, B.S., Graduate Student, Biopsychology and Behavioral Neuroscience
- Adam Weissman, B.S., Graduate Student, Clinical Psychology
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- Joshua Collins, Undergraduate Student, Psychology
- Lisa Dapuzzo, Undergraduate George H. Cook Scholar, Biology
- Timothy Fishman, Undergraduate Student, Psychology
- Yonatan Greenstein, Undergraduate Student, Biology
- Myron Jabido, Undergraduate Student, Psychology
- Purvi Patel, Medical Student & Undergraduate Student, Biology
- Catharine Rha, Undergraduate Henry Rutgers Scholar, Biological Sciences & Psychology, Recipient of the 2004 Bela Julesz Psi Chi Scholarship for Undergraduate Research
- Neha Sehgal, Undergraduate Student, Psychology
- Heather Shrigley, Undergraduate Student, Psychology
- Karol Silva, Undergraduate Student, Psychology
- Eric Tseng, Undergraduate Student, Psychology
- Jessica Zak, Undergraduate Student, Psychology
- Christine Zakrzweski, B.A., Psychology
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Former Students: What they’re doing now:
- Danielle Barry, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Fellow, Geisinger Hospital
- Chait Desai, Medical Student, UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- Neha Desai, Research Associate with Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
- Nishant Patel, Clinical Psychology Graduate Student, Widner University
- Gerald Voelbel, Ph.D., Post Doctoral Fellow, Kessler Institute
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