George James Institution Verified
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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
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PSY Psychiatry, College of Medicine
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George James's research centers on the application of neuroimaging techniques, specifically human MRI, to investigate the neural underpinnings of cognitive variability. As a founding faculty member of the UAMS Brain Imaging Research Center, established in 2009, his work aims to model brain-behavior relationships in healthy populations to identify patterns of functional brain organization that may confer risk for or influence recovery from various psychiatric and neurologic disorders. His funded research has focused on understanding the neurocognitive mechanisms associated with preventing relapse in opioid use disorder and examining the sex-specific roles and neural correlates of future outcome estimation in the context of drug addiction.
James has received federal funding for two projects totaling $899,077 from the NIH/National Institute on Drug Abuse. These grants support his work on smartphone-assisted prevention of relapse in opioid use disorder and the investigation of sex-specific neural processing related to future outcome estimation in addiction. He also holds the designation of federal grant principal investigator and maintains an active laboratory website. His academic appointments include Professor in Psychiatry and Neurology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.
Research Overview
I joined UAMS as in 2009 as a founding faculty member of the UAMS Brain Imaging Research Center, Arkansas's first research-dedicated human MRI research center. As the BIRC's interim Director and a Professor in Psychiatry and Neurology, my research focuses on advancing neuroimaging methodology to better understand how the human brain encodes individual variance in cognition. By modeling these brain-behavior relationships in normative samples, I seek to identify patterns of functional brain organization that encode risk for and recovery from psychiatric and neurologic disorders including addiction, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, PTSD, and depression.
Federal Grants 2 $899,077 total
Grants & Funding
- Cognitive Control Theoretic Mechanisms of Real-time fMRI-Guided Neuromodulation National Science Foundation Co-Investigator
- Modeling sex-differences in trauma-related neural organization conferring resilience against addiction NIH Principal Investigator
- The sex-specific roles and neural processing correlates of future outcome estimation in the drug addiction process - Continuation - Continuation NIH/Nat. Inst. on Drug Abuse Co-Investigator
- Mapping Brain-Cognition Relationships which Encode Cognitive Deficits in Refractory Epilepsy NIH Principal Investigator
- Dissecting the Cognitive Roles of Hippocampus NIH/Nat. Inst. of Neurological Disorders & Stroke - Pass Through: Emory University Principal Investigator
- 1/6 HBCD Prenatal Experiences and Longitudinal Development (PRELUDE) Consortium NIH Co-Investigator
- Dopamine Enhancement of Fear Extinction Learning in PTSD NIH/Nat. Inst. of Mental Health - Pass Through: University of Wisconsin-Madison Principal Investigator
- Bupropion for Depression in ESRD Patients on Hemodialysis NIH Co-Investigator
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