Lynn Oswald , PhD, MSN, RN
Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Health
SCHOOL OF NURSING
Research Interests
- Stress
- Substance use disorders
- Decision-making
- Brain reward system function
- Dopamine
- Recent interest includes associations of the above with chronic pain
Research approaches
- Administration of self-report measures of stress, mood, anxiety, personality, psychological symptoms, and alcohol/drug use
- psychiatric diagnostic screening interviews
- assessment of hormonal and psychological responses to acute psychosocial stress in the human laboratory
- administration of behavioral measures of decision-making in human laboratory and fMRI settings
- pharmacological HPA-axis challenge
- use of PET receptor-binding technology for translational research on brain dopamine function in humans
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8792-3208
Publications
- Lee, R.S., Oswald, L.M., Wand, G.S. Early life stress as a predictor of co-occurring Alcohol Use Disorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Alcohol Research: Current Reviews (in press).
- Oswald, L.M., Wand, G.S.,Wong, D.F., Brown, C.H., Kuwabara, H., Brasic, J.R. (2015). Risky Decision-Making and Ventral Striatal Dopamine Responses to Amphetamine: A Positron Emission Tomography [11C]Raclopride Study in Healthy Adults, Neuroimage 113, 26-36. PMID: 25795343.
- Oswald, L.M. and Wand, G.S. (2016). Comments and controversies: Piecing together the neurobiology of decision-making, Neuroimage 125, 1096-1098. PMID: 26285077.
- Oswald, L.M., Wand, G.S., Kuwabara, H., Wong, D.F., Zhu, S., Brasic, J.R. (2014). History of childhood adversity is positively associated with ventral striatal dopamine responses to amphetamine. Psychopharmacology, 231 (12), 2417-33. PMCID: PMC4040334.
- Oswald, L.M., Wand, G.S., Zhu, S., Selby, V. (2013). Volunteerism and self-selection bias in human positron emission tomography research. Brain Imaging and Behavior, 7, 163–176. PMCID: PMC3594082.
