Current areas of research at the Center include:

• Technological Developments in Functional MRI
  Dr. Jia-Hong Gao, Departments of Radiology and Psychiatry
   
• The effects of drugs of abuse on mood and cognitive function
  Dr. Harriet de Wit, Department of Psychiatry
  
   
• Human neuroscience
  Dr. Steven Small, Departments of Neurology and Psychology
   
• The social neuroscience of empathy and sympathy
  Dr. Jean Decety, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry
   
• Affective regulation and anxiety disorders
  Dr. K. Luan Phan, Department of Psychiatry
   
• Mechanisms underlying anthropomorphism
  Dr. John Cacioppo, Department of Psychology & Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience
   
• The role of motor experience in sentence comprehension
  Dr. Sian Beilock, Department of Psychology
   
• Neural correlates of episodic memory retrieval
  Dr. David Gallo, Department of Psychology
  
   
• The impact of early brain injury on cognitive development
  Dr. Susan Levine, Department of Psychology
   
• Functional MRI of alcohol-induced urge to smoke
  Dr. Andrea King and Dr. K. Luan Phan, Department of Psychiatry
   
• Neural correlates of processing affective information
  Dr. Howard Nusbaum, Department of Psychology
   
• Effect of sleep deprivation
  Dr. Eve van Cauter, Department of Medicine
   
• Gods and gadgets: The influence of stimulus predictability on anthropomorphism, and an exploration of egocentrism toward God
  Dr. John Cacioppo, Department of Psychology
   
• Pathways linking reduced sleep duration and quality to obesity risk
  Dr. Esra Tasali, Department of Medicine
   
• Neuroethology of vocal learning
  Dr. Dan Margoliash, Departments of Organismal Biology and Anatomy & Psychology
   

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