Research Interests

Adolescent Alcohol Exposure and Brain Development

My primary research focus examines how adolescent alcohol exposure alters brain structure and function into adulthood. I investigate changes in perineuronal nets and parvalbumin-expressing interneurons in the cortex, and how these changes mediate behavioral inflexibility.

Neural Oscillations and Substance Use

I study cortical-striatal-hippocampal oscillatory dynamics and their relationship to alcohol consumption, including sex differences in how these neural signatures predict drinking behavior.

Maternal Neuroscience

My earlier work explored how reproductive experience reshapes emotional and cognitive biobehavioral responses, examining allostatic shifts induced by maternal experience.

Translational Neuropharmacology

I have contributed to research on clozapine pharmacology and the intersection of psychiatric treatment with substance use disorders.