BCAN Faculty
These faculty members all accept PhD and Master's students and have active research programs. Even though some of the faculty are in the biology, language and foreign studies, computer science and physics departments, a student in the PhD program can conduct research with them while pursuing their psychology degree. If you have any questions or need more information, please feel free to contact any core faculty member directly.
Naomi Baron
Language and foreign studies -- Computer-mediated communication (linguistics of email, IM and text messaging; multitasking while online; cross-cultural mobile phone usage patterns)
nbaron@american.edu
202-885-2455
Biology -- Relation between visually-guided behaviors in larval teleosts and maturation of retinal neurons, circuits, and receptor mechanisms. Development of neural connections and alterations due to mutations or drugs.
vconn@american.edu
202-885-2188
Kristine Erickson
Psychology -- NIH (Psychologist in Residence at AU) Neuropsychology of mood and anxiety disorders, pediatric neuropsychology, emotional processing in depression, fMRI, stress hormones and their relationship to emotion, and cognition.
uerickson@american.edu
Bryan Fantie
Psychology -- Cognitive & clinical neuropsychology; neural mechanisms & correlates of behavior, cognition, language, and emotion; neurological & psychiatric disorders; closed head injury, epilepsy, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, autism, & Williams syndrome.
Behavioral genetics in humans, drosophila, & other species.
bfantie@american.edu
202-885-1790
Maria Gomez-Serrano
Psychology -- Neuroscience, basic physiology, immunoreactivity, epigenetic factors in drug abuse, maternal behavior in drug use and abuse.
mgomez@american.edu
202-885-2681
Laura Juliano
Psychology -- Smoking, caffeine, drug expectancies, placebo effects, anxiety.
juliano@american.edu
202-885-1715
David N. Kearns
Psychology -- Learning, conditioned inhibition, stimulus control, drug self-administration.
dkearns@american.edu
202-885-1725
Monika Konaklieva
Chemistry -- Microbial resistance.
mkonak@american.edu
202-885-1777
Deborah Norris
Psychology -- (Psychologist in Residence at AU) alternative medicine, mind-body-spirit therapies, mindfulness meditation and awareness training, behavioral medicine, healing arts and sciences, psychopharmacology, and neurotoxicology.
dnorris@american.edu
Scott Parker
Psychology -- Psychophysics; statistical and quantitative methods; perception.
sparker@american.edu
202-885-1719
Zehra Peynircioglu
Psychology -- Human memory and cognition.
peynir@american.edu
202-885-1713
Tony Riley
Psychology -- Behavioral pharmacology, neurotoxicology, conditioned food aversions, feeding, prenatal drug effects.
alriley@american.edu
202-885-1720
Cathy Schaeff
Biology -- Conservation biology, molecular ecology, and behavior. schaeff@american.edu
202-885-2175
Arthur Shapiro
Psychology -- Visual perception and cognitive neuroscience
arthur.shapiro@american.edu
202-885-1759
Alan Silberberg
Psychology -- Experimental analysis of behavior, autoshaping, choice behavior, microstructural choice.
asilber@american.edu
202-885-1709
Catherine Stoodley
Psychology --Neuroscience of cognitive development, the role of the cerebellum in learning and skill acquisition
stoodley@american.edu
202-885-1785
Stan Weiss
Psychology -- Stimulus control of behavior; incentive motivation; drugs and behavior; animal models of drug abuse; biological constraints on learning; two-process learning theory; appetitive-aversive; interaction theory of motivation.
sweiss@american.edu
202-885-1724
BCAN Affiliated Faculty and Scientists
These faculty members provide a range of valuable services and resources that include such activities as research supervision, course instruction, and thesis/dissertation committee memberships. Please check with the director if you are interested in working primarily with one of them.
Robin Barr, Language and Foreign Studies Department
Psychology of language, phonology, language acquisition
Barbara Bayer, Georgetown University
Neuroscience and immunology
Fernando Benadon, Performing Arts Department (Music)
Music perception
Allen Braun, NIH
Language, music, neuroimaging
David Carlini, Biology Department
Biology
Steve Casey, Mathematics and Statistics Department
Complex and harmonic analysis, geometry, and applications to signal and image processing
Karen Gale, Georgetown University
GABA and seizures
David Haaga, Psychology (clinical)
Addiction
Eric Kothari, Psychology (psychologist in residence)
Forensic psychology
Esther Sternberg, NIH
Immunology and mind-body interaction
Cora Lee Wetherington, NIDA
Gender sssues and drug abuse
Brian Yates, Psychology
Health psychology
