Marsha E. Bates, Ph.D.

Research Professor I of Psychology, Rutgers, Center of Alcohol Studies
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, UMDNJ/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School

Office: BASRoom 225
Tel: (732) 445-3559
Fax: (732) 445-3500
Email: mebates@rci.rutgers.edu
Current Research
  • Acute alcohol and placebo effects on memory and psychophysiological modulation of emotional arousal
  • Implicit and explicit memory for emotional and appetitive word and picture cues
  • Memory and psychophysiological arousal in high risk and substance use disordered samples
  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of emotional response and memory
  • Development of novel treatment approaches such as resonance HRV biofeedback
  • Mechanisms of behavioral change
  • Translational science
Recent Awards

2007 Teacher Recognition in Neuroscience, IES Brain Research Foundation, Sparta, NJ
2006 Fellow: American Psychological Association
2002 Award for Excellence in Scientific Presentation, American Psychological Association, Division 40: Clinical Neuropsychology
2001 Ongoing 28 Academic and Research Awards to students and junior faculty mentored by Dr. Bates

 
Education
  Ph.D Rutgers Cognitive Psychology 1980
  M.S. Rutgers Human Experimental Psychology 1978
Recent Professional Service
2008 – Ongoing
Neuroscience Review Subcommittee (AA-4) of the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) Initial Review Group, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
2008 – Ongoing Vice-Chair: Rutgers Institutional Review Board for the Protection of Human Subjects Involved in Research
2006 – Ongoing Chair: Finance Committee of Division 50 of the American Psychological Association
2004 – Ongoing Planning committee for Research Society on Alcoholism (RSA)/NIAAA Satellite meeting on Mechanisms of Behavior change
2004 – Ongoing Consultant to NIAAA: Mechanisms of Behavior Change
2004 – Ongoing Consulting Editor: Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
1992 - Ongoing Editorial Board: Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs
2004 - 2008 Beta Site Collaborator: Mayo Clinic, Analyze Brain Imaging Software
2004 - 2007 Conference Program Committee, Research Society on Alcoholism
2004 - 2006 President Elect, President, Past President: Division 50 (Addictions), American Psychological Association
Recent Publications

Ray, S., & Bates, M. E. (in press). Explicit memory under acute alcohol challenge. In L. Sher & J. Merrick (Eds.), Alcohol Related Cognitive disorders: Research and Clinical Perspectives. NY: Nova Science Publishers.

Udo, T., Bates, M. E., Mun, E. Y., Vaschillo, E. G., Vaschillo, B., Lehrer, P., & Ray, S. (2009). Gender differences in acute alcohol effects on self-regulation of arousal in response to emotional and alcohol-related picture cues. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. 23(2):196-204

Bates, M.E., Bowden, S.C., & Barry D. (2008). Alcohol-related dementia. In D. Geldmacher (Ed.), Other Dementias (pp. 123-145). Delray Beach: FL: Carma Publishing.

Barry, D., Bates, M.E., & Labouvie, E.W. (2008). FAS and CFL forms of verbal fluency differ in difficulty: A meta-analytic study. Applied Neuropsychology. 15, 97-106.

Buckman, J.F., Bates, M.E. & Morgenstern, J. (2008). Social support and cognitive impairment in clients with alcohol and drug use disorders: A replication study. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 69, 738-746.

Lagos, L. Vaschillo, E., Vaschillo, B., Lehrer, P., Bates, M.E., & Pandina, R. (2008). Heart rate variability biofeedback as a strategy for dealing with competitive anxiety: A case study. Biofeedback, 36, 109-115.

Vaschillo, E.G., Bates, M.E., Vaschillo, B., Lehrer, P., Udo, T., Mun E.U, & Ray, S. (2008). Heart rate variability response to alcohol, placebo, and emotional picture cue challenges: Effects of 0.1 Hz stimulation. Psychophysiology. 4 , 847–858.

Chiu, S., Widjaja, F., Bates, M.E., Voelbel, G.T., Pandina, G., Marble, J., Blank, J.A., Day, J., Brule, N. & Hendren, R.L. (2008). Anterior cingulate volume in pediatric bipolar disorder and autism. Journal of Affective Disorders, 105, 93-99.

Mun, E.Y., Von Eye, A., Bates, M.E., & Vaschillo, E. (2008). Finding groups using model-based cluster analysis: Heterogeneous emotional self-regulatory processes and heavy alcohol use risk. Developmental Psychology, 44, 481-495.

Buckman, J.F., Bates, M.E. & Cisler, R.A. (2007). Social networks and their influence on drinking behaviors: Differences related to cognitive impairment in clients receiving alcohol treatment. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 68, 738-747.

Barker, E.D., Séguin, J.R., White, H.R., Bates, M.E., Lacourse, E., Carbonneau, R., & Tremblay, R.E. (2007). Developmental trajectories of male physical violence and theft: Relation to neurocognitive performance. Archives of General Psychiatry, 64, 592-599.

Ray, S. & Bates, M.E. (2007). Acute effects of alcohol on intrusion errors in free recall tasks. International Journal on Disability and Human Development, 6, 201-205.

Bates, M.E., Pawlak, A.T., Tonigan, J.S., & Buckman, J.F. (2006). Cognitive impairment influences drinking outcome by altering therapeutic mechanisms of change. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 20, 241-253.

Buyske, S., Bates, M.E., Gharani, N. Matise, T.C., Tischfield, J.A., & Manowitz, P. (2006). Cognitive traits link to human chromosomal regions. Behavior Genetics, 36, 65-76.

Ray, S. & Bates, M.E. (2006). Acute alcohol effects on repetition priming and word recognition memory with equivalent memory cues. Brain and Cognition, 60, 118-127.

Voelbel, G., Bates, M.E., Buckman, J.F., Pandina, G., Hendren, R. (2006). Caudate nucleus volume and cognitive performance: Are they related in childhood psychopathology? Biological Psychiatry, 60, 942-950

Bates, M.E., Voelbel, G.T., Buckman, J.F., Labouvie, E.W., & Barry, D. (2005). Short-term neuropsychological recovery in substance use disordered clients. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 29, 367-377.

Bates, M.E., Barry, D., Labouvie, E.W., Fals-Stewart, W., Voelbel, G., & Buckman, JF. (2004). Risk factors and neuropsychological recovery in alcohol use disordered clients exposed to different treatments. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 72, 1073-1080.

Bates, M.E. & Lemay E. (2004). The d2 Test of Attention: Construct validity and extensions in scoring techniques. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 10, 392-400.

Ray, S., Bates, M.E. & Bly, B.M. (2004). Alcohol’s dissociation of implicit and explicit memory processes: Implications of a parallel distributed processing model of semantic priming. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 12, 118-125.

 
Dr. Bates joined the Center in 1981 as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Research areas have included acute and chronic alcohol and drug effects on neuropsychological and cognitive functioning, and the study neurocognitive impairment and recovery in clinical samples in relation to therapeutic changes processes and treatment outcome. Her current research program focuses on further understanding neurobiological and neurocognitive processes that subserve emotional regulation and act to support or hinder adaptive behavioral change. She is the director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory that promotes translation between basic human behavioral and clinical science to characterize novel mechanisms of behavioral change.