Clinical Science Faculty

Clinical Science Faculty


John Bates

John Bates

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Director of Clinical Training

**Not accepting graduate students**

Research Interests
development of children's behavior problems and competencies; family interaction processes; child temperament, social, cognitive and affective characteristics; socioeconomic variables; developmental psychopathology; parent behavioral training

Joshua W. Brown

Joshua W. Brown

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Director, Program in Neuroscience

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**

Research Interests
develop computational models of brain circuitry involved in cognitive control; test computational model predictions with fMRI; investigate the neural bases of cognitive impairment in psychopathology, especially substance abuse and schizophrenia, using fMRI and computational modeling

Spencer Dawson

Spencer Dawson

Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Not accepting graduate students**

Brian D'Onofrio

Brian D'Onofrio

Sharon Stephens Brehm Endowed Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**

Research Interests
Developmental psychopathology, pharmacoepidemiology, behavior genetics/genetic epidemiology, dissemination and implementation

Peter Finn

Peter Finn

Provost Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
roles of executive cognitive function, attention control, working memory, decision-making, and personality in self-regulation and disorders characterized by poor self-regulation, such as substance use disorders, externalizing psychopathology, and internalizing psychopathology; development of interventions to improve decision-making and moderate the deleterious effects of stress, negative emotions, and fatigue on executive cognitive functions, such as attention control, and performance

Natasha Hansen

Natasha Hansen

Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Not accepting graduate students**

  • nshansen@iu.edu
  • Psychology Building 160
Julia Heiman

Julia Heiman

Professor Emerita, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
human sexuality

William P. Hetrick

William P. Hetrick

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Department Chair

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**

Research Interests
cognitive neuroscience of schizophrenia and related psychological disorders; clinical translational psychopathology approaches to understanding risk factors and "illness" mechanisms using both human and animal models; temporal processing, cerebellar function, and brain micro-state measures of cognitive discoordination; methods utilized in the lab include fMRI, EEG, ERPs, rTMS, EMG, and clinical-neuropsychological assessment

Amy Holtzworth-Munroe

Amy Holtzworth-Munroe

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Not accepting graduate students**

Research Interests
Intimate partner violence; interventions for divorcing or separating parents; studies of the effectiveness of family law interventions (e.g., mediation, court-affiliated parenting programs); screening for intimate partner violence in family law settings

Daniel P. Kennedy

Daniel P. Kennedy

Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Director, Imaging Research Facility

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023 — please email before applying**

Research Interests
social neuroscience; autism spectrum disorders; social perception; eye tracking; brain connectivity; functional MRI

Anne Krendl

Anne Krendl

Associate Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**

Research Interests
social neuroscience; social cognition & aging; healthy & pathological aging; stigma

Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces

Lorenzo Lorenzo-Luaces

Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2023**

Research Interests
psychotherapy for depression: outcomes, processes, and moderators; intersection of stepped care and personalized medicine for depression; history and classification of major depressive disorder; treatment of bipolar II depression

Kenneth Mackie

Kenneth Mackie

Distinguished Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Jack and Linda Gill Chair, Gill Center for Biomolecular Science

**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2023**

  • kmackie@indiana.edu
  • (812) 855-2042
  • Multidisciplinary Science Building II 120

Research Interests
regulation of CB1 cannabinoid receptor signaling; regulation of endocannabinoid production; role of endocannabinoids in synaptic plasticity; novel cannabinoid receptors

Sharlene D. Newman

Sharlene D. Newman

Adjunct Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Professor, University of Alabama

Executive Director for the Alabama Life Research Institute

  • sdnewman@indiana.edu

Research Interests
fMRI of language processes; problem-solving and planning

Brian F. O'Donnell

Brian F. O'Donnell

Professor Emeritus, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
event-related potential abnormalities in schizophrenia and related disorders; disturbances of early stage vision in schizophrenia and affective disorders; event-related potentials and risk for alcoholism

Patrick Quinn

Patrick Quinn

Adjunct Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Assistant Professor, Applied Health Science

Research Interests
opioid and other substance use; chronic pain, pharmacoepidemiology; behavioral genetics

Lauren Rutter

Lauren Rutter

Associate Research Scientist, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Research Interests
Dimensions of internalizing psychopathology, Assessment and classification of emotional disorders, Social cognition and neurocognition across the lifespan, Digital technology and mental health

Emma Schiestl

Emma Schiestl

Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

** Not accepting graduate students**

Research Interests
disordered eating

Richard Viken

Richard Viken

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Not accepting graduate students for Fall, 2023**

Research Interests
antisocial behavior; social interaction; family process; behavior genetics; alcohol use and abuse

Cara L. Wellman

Cara L. Wellman

Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

Director, Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior

Research Interests
stress effects on corticolimbic morphology and function; transgenic models of psychopathology

Krista M. Wisner

Krista M. Wisner

Assistant Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences

**Reviewing graduate applications for Fall, 2023**

Research Interests
serious mental illness, addiction, stress, interoception, experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical neuroscience, neuroimaging