Faculty
Kari J. Buck, Ph.D.
Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience
Scientist, VA Medical Center
Vincent Costa, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience
Areas of interest: reinforcement learning, motivation and emotion, and systems neuroscience
John C. Crabbe, Ph.D.
Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience
Senior Research Career Scientist, VA Portland Health Care System
Major areas: Pharmacogenetics, alcohol and dependence, alcohol binge drinking, drug discovery
Christopher L. Cunningham, Ph.D.
Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience
Research Interests: Brain mechanisms of drug reward, animal models of alcohol and drug addiction, conditioned place preference and aversion, conditioned taste aversion, drug self-administration, behavioral pharmacology, Pavlovian conditioning, learning and motivation, behavioral genetics
Damien A. Fair, P.A.-C., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Departments of Behavioral Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Associate Scientist, Advanced Imaging Research Center
Areas of interest: Cognitive brain development, ADHD, autism, neuroimaging
Deborah A. Finn, Ph.D.
Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience
Research Pharmacologist, Research Service, VAMC
Major areas: Neuropharmacology, neuroendocrinology of ethanol intake and withdrawal
Marina Guizzetti, Ph.D.
Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience
Areas of interest: Glia, astrocytes, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, neuronal development, neurite outgrowth, extracellular matrix, chondroitin sulfate proteoglycans
Robert Hitzemann, Ph.D.
Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience
Ovidiu (Dan) Iancu, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience
Garet P. Lahvis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience
Areas of interest: Altruism, social motivation, vocal communication, empathy, ground squirrels, self-recognition, eye-gaze
Matthew Lattal, Ph.D.
Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience
Areas of interest: Neurobiology of learning and memory, models of substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder, learning theory, pharmacological approaches to enhancing memory, epigenetic mechanisms of memory
Claudio V. Mello, Ph.D.
Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience
Areas of interest: Neuroethology, molecular neuroscience, speech and language, vocal learning, central auditory processing, learning and memory, neurogenomics
Charles K. Meshul, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Behavioral Neuroscience and Pathology
Research Biologist and Director, Electron Microscopy Facility, Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Research Interests: Parkinson's disease, drugs of abuse, electron/light microscopy, immunocytochemistry, in vivo microdialysis, synaptic plasticity, neuroleptic drugs, treadmill exercise, neuroanatomy, cellular
Suzanne H. Mitchell, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Behavioral Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Areas of interest: Determinants of risky and impulsive decision-making; alcohol, nicotine, and marijuana use; neurobiology of choice; behavioral genetics of impulsivity; behavioral economics
Bita Moghaddam, Ph.D.
Chair and Ruth Matarazzo Professor
Research Interests: motivated behavior, electrophysiology, animal models of psychiatric disorders
Kim A. Neve, Ph.D.
Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience
Research Pharmacologist, VAMC
Areas of interest: Dopamine receptors, signal transduction, cellular and molecular biology of g protein-coupled receptors, structure-function analysis of dopamine receptors, behavior
Angela R. Ozburn, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience
Research Interests: Circadian gene regulation of mood- and alcohol use disorders, testing and characterizing therapies for reducing alcohol and drug intake in animal models
Tamara J. Phillips, Ph.D.
Professor & Vice-Chair, Behavioral Neuroscience
Director, The Portland Alcohol Research Center
Senior Research Career Scientist, Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Board Member and Past President, Research Society on Alcoholism
Research Interests: Behavioral genetics, quantitative genetics, alcohol, methamphetamine, addiction, neuroscience, stress
Jacob Raber, Ph.D.
Professor, Departments of Behavioral Neuroscience, Neurology, and Radiation Medicine
Affiliate Scientist, Oregon National Primate Research Center
Research Interests: Aging, Alzheimer's disease, androgen receptor, sex differences, histamine, apoE, methamphetamine, irradiation, neurogenesis, cognitive function, behavioral, circadian, high fat diet-induced cognitive impairments
Andrey E. Ryabinin, Ph.D.
Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience
Research Interests: Alcoholism, drug addiction, neuropeptides, stress, social neuroscience
Marina Wolf, Ph.D.
Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience
Research Interests: Synaptic plasticity underlying behavioral changes in animal models of drug addiction
Assistant Scientist, Oregon Institute of Occupational Health Sciences
Assistant Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience
Areas of interest: The effects of clock synchrony on cardiometabolic health, how the circadian clock governs sleep apnea severity in humans, temporal patterns of sleep apnea as predictors of mortality
Associate Dean, Basic Research, Office of the Dean, School of Medicine
Director, Balance Disorders Laboratory
Areas of interest: Fetal development, magnetic resonance imaging, neurodeveloment disorders, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
Vice Chair for Research, Psychiatry, School of Medicine
Behavioral Neuroscience Graduate Program
Director, Division of Psychology
Anna Wang Roe, Ph.D.
Professor, Oregon National Primate Research Center
Professor of Behavioral Neuroscience
Areas of interest: Organization and function of cerebral cortex; sensory systems: vision, touch, attention; neuroimaging and neurotechnology; brain development
Mario and Edith Campagna Chair of Pediatric Neurological Surgery
Department Chair, Neurological Surgery
Behavioral Neuroscience Graduate Program
Areas of interest: Pediatric epilepsy, cranial synostosis, chiari malformation, tethered spinal cord, neurosurgical education
Professor, Behavioral Neuroscience
Areas of interest: Basic mechanisms of lung development; potential effects of smoking during pregnancy on lung development and therapeutic interventions; clinical approaches to lung development, prematurity, and improved respiratory outcomes; epigenetic effects of in utero exposure to smoking; nicotine, nicotinic receptors and ly-6 proteins; nicotine and lung cancer; e-cigarettes
Bill Griesar, Ph.D.
Instructor, Psychology, Portland State University
Instructor, Psychology & Neuroscience, WSU-Vancouver
Affiliate Graduate Faculty, Behavioral Neuroscience, OHSU
David Rossi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience
Washington State University
Todd D. Watson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Lewis & Clark College
Yueping Zhang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Lewis & Clark College
Gregory P. Mark, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Emeritus
Behavioral Neuroscience
Joseph D. Matarazzo, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Behavioral Neuroscience
Ruth G. Matarazzo, Ph.D., ABPP, ABCN
Professor Emeritus
Departments of Behavioral Neuroscience and Psychiatry
Arthur N. Wiens, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Behavioral Neuroscience
Kristine Wiren, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Behavioral Neuroscience
Page last updated: February, 2019