International Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Open Access

Laura E Martin

Biography

  Education and Training University of Kansas: Bachelor of Arts, Psychology/Dance Rice University: Master of Science, Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience Rice University: Doctor of Philosophy, Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience University of Kansas Medical Center: Postdoctoral Fellowship

Research Interest

 My research focuses on identifying neural mechanisms associated with health behaviors such as smoking and obesity. My research utilizes functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine differences in prefrontal and limbic responses to rewarding stimuli (i.e. smoking cues, money, food-images, etc). In addition, my research examines the of role individual differences impulsivity in decision making and reward processing. As Associate Director of fMRI in the Hoglund Brain Imaging Center, I also have numerous ongoing collaborations areas of smoking cessation, obesity, social neuroscience, decision-making, resting state fMRI and neuroeconomics.

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