The theme of Motivation and Emotion includes Appetitive and Aversive Learning, Motivation, Emotion, Mood Disorders: Depression and Bipolar Disorders, Anxiety Disorders, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Other Psychiatric Disorders, Drugs of Abuse and Addiction.
The following UTHealth NRC faculty conduct research in the theme of Motivation and Emotion:
- Mohammed Ahmed, MD
- Melissa Allen, DO
- Elaheh Ashtari, PsyD
- Jeffrey Barr, MD
- Isabelle Bauer, PhD
- Jennifer Beauchamp, PhD, RN
- Glenn Belz, MD
- Kawal Bir, MD
- Charoo Chouhan, MD
- Nachum Dafny, PhD
- Joao de Quevedo, MD, PhD
- Fabricio Do Monte, DVM, PhD
- Nikola Dragojlovic, DO
- Alexandra Duran, MD
- Rania Elkhatib, MD
- Louis A. Faillace, MD
- Jose Fernandez, MD
- Luis Fernandez, MD
- J. Chase Findley, MD
- Christopher Frederick, DO
- Gabriel R. Fries, PhD
- Robert W. Guynn, MD
- Silvia Hafliger, MD
- Jane E. Hamilton, PhD
- Angela M. Heads, PhD
- Amanda Helminiak, MD
- Umair Hemani, DO
- Melba Hernandez-Tejada, PhD
- Gregory Hestla, MD
- Jennifer B. Hughes, PhD
- Benson Irungu, PhD
- Jason James, MD
- Vineeth John, MD, MBA
- Nicholas Justice, PhD
- Shitij Kapoor, MD
- Tyler S. Kimm, MD
- Micah J. Knobles, MD
- Vinay Kothapalli, MD
- Scott Lane, PhD
- Luca Lavagnino, MD, PhD
- Nubia Lluberes, MD
- Jylia Lobanova, MD
- Katherine Loveland, PhD
- Rodrigo Machado-Vieira, MD, PhD
- Allison S. Marshall, MD
- Saba Memon, MD
- Ruben Mendez, MD
- Thomas Meyer, PhD
- Olivia Moffitt, MD
- Caesa Nagpal, MD
- Elizabeth T. Nguyen, MD
- Justin Nguyen, MD
- Bobby Nix, MD
- Maria J. Orejarena, MD, PhD
- Nicholas Patniyot, MD
- Teresa Pigott, MD
- Omar F. Pinjari, MD
- Nicola Riccardo Polizzotto, MD
- Alan Prossin, MBBS
- Segundo Robert-Ibarra, MD
- Sumera Salamat, MD
- Kimberly Samuels, PhD
- Marsal Sanches, MD, PhD
- Cynthia Santos, MD
- Joy Schmitz, PhD
- Laurie Schneider, MD
- Salih Selek, MD
- Sudhakar Selvaraj, MD, PhD
- Lokesh Shahani, MD, MPH
- Janis Smeal, DO
- John L. Sneed, MD
- Jair Soares, MD, PhD
- Cesar A. Soutullo, MD, PhD
- Angela Stotts, PhD
- Robert Suchting, PhD
- Nilesh Tannu, MD, MS
- Andrea N. Taylor, PhD
- Leslie K. Taylor, PhD
- Antonio L. Teixeira, MD, PhD
- Ana M. Ugueto, PhD
- Consuelo Walss-Bass, PhD
- Michael Weaver, MD
- Zeshen Wu, MD
- Jun Yin, MD, PhD
- Jin H. Yoon, PhD
- Marion Zahn, PhD
- Cristian Zeni, MD, PhD
- Giovana Zunta-Soares, MD
