Profile

Education & Training
  AB Bates College 1969
  PhD New York University 1977
Fellowship Natl Inst Of Mental Health 1981
Memberships
Nat'L Inst of Health - Study Section
Society for Neuroscience
American Psychological Association
College on Problems of Drug Dependence
International Cannabinoid Society
Research Interests
radiology/imaging , substance abuse , women's health issues
Recent Publications

Hampson RE, Porrino LJ, Opris I, Stanford T, Deadwyler SA. Effects of cocaine rewards on neural representations of cognitive demand in nonhuman primates. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2011; 213(1):105-118.

Hanlon CA, Wesley MJ, Stapleton JR, Laurienti PJ, Porrino LJ. The association between frontal-striatal connectivity and sensorimotor control in cocaine users. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2011; 115(3):240-243.


Hanlon CA, Dufault DL, Wesley MJ, Porrino LJ. Elevated gray and white matter densities in cocaine abstainers compared to current users. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2011; 218(4):681-692.

Hampson RE, Porrino LJ, Opris I, Stanford TE, Deadwyler SA. Effects of cocaine on neural substrates of cognitive demand in nonhuman primates [abstract]. Behav Pharmacol. 2011; 22(Suppl A):e12.

Hanlon CA, Wesley MJ, Roth AJ, Miller MD, Porrino LJ. Loss of laterality in chronic cocaine users: an fMRI investigation of sensorimotor control. Psychiatry Res. 2010; 181(1):15-23.

Fridberg DJ, Queller S, Ahn W-Y, Kim W, Bishara AJ, Busemeyer JR, Porrino L, Stout JC. Cognitive mechanisms underlying risky decision-making in chronic cannabis users. J Math Psychol. 2010; 54(1):28-38.

Porrino LJ. Enabling medication development: translating from preclinical to clinical imaging [abstract]. Biol Psychiatry. 2010; 67(9 Suppl):24S.

Lack AK, Gill KE, Porrino LJ. Local cerebral glucose utilization in rats exposed to an enriched environment: a comparison to impoverishment. Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 2010; 96(4):521-525.

Porrino LJ, Hanlon CA, Gill KE, Beveridge TJR. Parallel studies of neural and cognitive impairment in humans and monkeys. In: Robbins TW, Everitt BJ, Nutt DJ, eds. The neurobiology of addiction: new vistas. New York: Oxford University Press; 2010: 241-256.

Hampson RE, Espana RA, Rogers GA, Porrino LJ, Deadwyler SA. Mechanisms underlying cognitive enhancement and reversal of cognitive deficits in nonhuman primates by the ampakine CX717. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2009; 202(1-3):355-369.

Beveridge TJR, Smith HR, Nader MA, Porrino LJ. Abstinence from chronic cocaine self-administration alters striatal dopamine systems in rhesus monkeys. Neuropsychopharmacology. 2009; 34(5):1162-1171.

Hanlon CA, Wesley MJ, Porrino LJ. Loss of functional specificity in the dorsal striatum of chronic cocaine users. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2009; 102(1-3):88-94.

Shannon EE, Wesley MJ, Hanlon CA, Torrence MC, Ligouri A, Porrino LJ. Impaired decision-making by dependent alcohol users is accompanied by differences in functional brain activation as compared to controls [abstract]. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2009; 33(Suppl 1):87A.

Beveridge TJR, Gill KE, Hanlon CA, Porrino LJ. Parallel studies of cocaine-related neural and cognitive impairment in humans and monkeys. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2008; 363(1507):3257-3266.


Hemby SE, Hanlon CA, Horman B, Sikoski P, Daunais J, Kraft R, Porrino LJ. MRI assessment of chronic antipsychotic administration in rhesus monkeys [abstract]. Soc Neurosci Abstr. 2008; 2008(Neuroscience Meeting Planner):.

Smith HR, Beveridge TJR, Hanlon CA, Porrino LJ. The dopamine transporter: an anatomical perspective. In: Trudell ML, Izenwasser S, eds. Dopamine transporters: chemistry, biology, and pharmacology. Hoboken (NJ): Wiley; 2008: 3-28.

Porrino LJ, Smith HR, Nader MA, Beveridge TJR. The effects of cocaine: a shifting target over the course of addiction. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2007; 31(8):1593-1600.


Deadwyler SA, Porrino LJ, Daunais JB, Miller M, Hanlon CA, Morgan AR, Gill KE, Long J, Ramirez S, Todd M, Hampson RE. Evidence for the differential effects of modafinil and the ampakine CX717 on task-related brain glucose metabolism in sleep-deprived monkeys [abstract]. Soc Neurosci Abstr. 2006; 2006(Abstr Viewer):.

Hampson R, Porrino LJ, Daunais JB, Miller M, Hanlon CA, Morgan AR, Gill KE, Long J, Ramirez S, Todd M, Deadwyler SA. Sleep deprivation disrupts brain glucose utilization and performance on high vs. low cognitive load trials during a delayed-match-to-sample (DMS) task in nonhuman primates [abstract]. Soc Neurosci Abstr. 2006; 2006(Abstr Viewer):.
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