Welcome to the Morey Neuroimaging Lab

Our primary research area is focused on brain changes in posttraumatic stress disorder. We are interested in the role fear, threat, guilt and other emotions along with their interaction with cognitive functions such as working memory, attention, and episodic memory in PTSD. Functional MRI employing cognitive challenge tasks, pharmacological challenges, emotion regulation strategies, as well as structural MRI, candidate gene, genome wide association studies (GWAS), and gene expression are converging methodologies for understanding mechanisms of PTSD. Our second research area is focused on understanding changes in mild traumatic brain injury using diffusion and structural imaging to better understand the role of clinical symptoms and mechanism of injury.