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Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program

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Psychiatry

Bennett, Pamela
SOM278B
Phone: 587-9765
E-mail: Pamela.Bennett@hsc.utah.edu

General Research Interest: Genetic susceptibility to psychiatric disorders, particularly suicide, depression, violence, anxiety and other mental illnesses.

Student Participation: Assist in lab work - check and run genotypes.

Background Needed: Basic lab skills and good communication skills.

Outside Majors: Biology, Biochemistry, Pre-med majors.

Key Words: brain, neurologic illness.

Student generated projects may be considered.


Marchland, William
116 OP
Phone: 582-1565 ext 2326
Email: William.Marchland@med.va.gov

General Research Interests: Bipolar disorder; neuro-imaging of mood and other psychiatric disorders.

Student Participation: IRB #12258; longitudinal Functional magnetic resonance of the brain in bipolar disorder. Help with fMRI scanning, data analysis and subject evaluation. Also, we are starting a large sucicde intervention study which will have a functional neuroimaging component.

Background Needed: None required, I will train. But science/medical would be helpful.

Outside Majors: Any medical field, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology, Biology, genetics, math, statistics.

Key Words: Brain, neurobiology, psychiatry, neuroimaging.

Student generated projects are encouraged (for any psychiatric and many neurological disorders).


McIntosh, Michael
201 S Biology
Phone: 585-3622
E-mail: mcintosh@biology.utah.edu

General Research Interest: Central nervous system; how receptor subtypes affect normal brain functioning, relate to diseases of the nervous system & relate to treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders.

Student Participation: Assist in laboratory experiments.

Background Needed: Biology, chemistry.

Outside Majors: Chemistry, Neuroscience, Pharmacology, Physiology.

Key Words: Brain, drug therapy, neurologic illness.

Student generated projects may be considered.


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