Job Description: Assisting in self administration and two-bottle choice ethanol models.  Providing support in preparation and execution of ongoing behavioral experiments.    

Research Interests: Biological Psychology and Psychopharmacology. Examining the efficacy of novel medications for alcohol dependency and addiction in hopes of enhancing current treatments.

Spigelman, I, Liang, J, Suryanarayanan, A, Olsen, RW.  A single intoxicating dose of ethanol reversibly alters the function and subunit composition of GABAA receptors in the CA1 region of the hippocampus.  Poster presented at the: Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting – Neuroscience 2006. 2006 Oct 14-18; Atlanta, Georgia.