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Overview

Cindy L. Ehlers is affiliated with the Scripps Research Institute in the United States. Their research spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on several subfields including Clinical Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Pathology and Forensic Medicine, Epidemiology, and Pharmacology.

Their publication record includes work on topics such as Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects, Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, Genetic Associations and Epidemiology, Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects, Sleep and Wakefulness Research, and Suicide and Self-Harm Studies.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Cindy L. Ehlers include:

  • "A roadmap for development of neuro-oscillations as translational biomarkers for treatment development in neuropsychopharmacology" (2020) published in Neuropsychopharmacology
  • "The role of sex in the persistent effects of adolescent alcohol exposure on behavior and neurobiology in rodents" (2021) published in International review of neurobiology
  • "Trauma, historical trauma, PTSD and suicide in an American Indian community sample" (2022) published in Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • "Common genetic substrates of alcohol and substance use disorder severity revealed by pleiotropy detection against GWAS catalog in two populations" (2020) published in Addiction Biology
  • "Delta Event-Related Oscillations Are Related to a History of Extreme Binge Drinking in Adolescence and Lifetime Suicide Risk" (2020) published in Behavioral Sciences

Frequent co-authors in Cindy L. Ehlers's research include:

  • Kirk C. Wilhelmsen
  • David A. Gilder
  • Ian R. Gizer
  • Katherine J. Karriker-Jaffe
  • Derek N. Wills

The scientist's research output has been published frequently in the following venues:

  • UNC Libraries
  • Alcohol
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Molecular Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • Social Zeitgebers and Biological Rhythms: A Unified Approach to Understanding the Etiology of Depression

    Cindy L. Ehlers;Ellen Frank;David J. Kupfer

  • P300 latency reflects the degree of cognitive decline in dementing illness

    John Polich;Cindy L. Ehlers;Shirley Otis;Arnold J. Mandell

  • Corticotropin releasing factor produces increases in brain excitability and convulsive seizures in rats

    C.L. Ehlers;S.J. Henriksen;M. Wang;J. Rivier

  • Effects of Corticotropin-Releasing Factor and Growth Hormone-Releasing Factor on Sleep and Activity in Rats

    Cindy L. Ehlers;Trisha K. Reed;Steven J. Henriksen

  • Addictions Biology: Haplotype-Based Analysis for 130 Candidate Genes on a Single Array

    Colin A. Hodgkinson;Qiaoping Yuan;Ke Xu;Pei-Hong Shen

  • Neuropeptide Y levels in ethanol-naive alcohol-preferring and nonpreferring rats and in Wistar rats after ethanol exposure.

    Cindy L. Ehlers;Ting‐Kai Li;Lawrence Lurneng;Bang H. Hwang

  • Effects of age on delta and REM sleep parameters.

    Cindy L. Ehlers;David J. Kupfer

  • Fetal alcohol syndrome: a case report of neuropsychological, MRI and EEG assessment of two children.

    Sarah N. Mattson;Edward P. Riley;Terry L. Jernigan;Terry L. Jernigan;Cindy L. Ehlers

  • Slow-wave sleep: do young adult men and women age differently?

    Cindy Ehlers;David Kupfer

  • Attractor dimension of nonstationary dynamical systems from small data sets.

    James W. Havstad;Cindy L. Ehlers

  • Gender differences in electrophysiological responses to facial stimuli

    Sara Orozco;Cindy L. Ehlers

  • EEG Spectral Analysis in Primary Insomnia: NREM Period Effects and Sex Differences

    Daniel J. Buysse;Anne Germain;Martica L. Hall;Douglas E. Moul

  • A decrease in the size of the basal ganglia following prenatal alcohol exposure: A preliminary report

    Sarah N. Mattson;Edward P. Riley;Terry L. Jernigan;Alicia Garcia

  • Innate differences of neuropeptide Y (NPY) in hypothalamic nuclei and central nucleus of the amygdala between selectively bred rats with high and low alcohol preference.

    B H Hwang;J K Zhang;C L Ehlers;L Lumeng

  • Two roads to rapid eye movement latency.

    David J. Kupfer;Cindy L. Ehlers

  • Low doses of ethanol reduce evidence for nonlinear structure in brain activity.

    Cindy L. Ehlers;James Havstad;Dean Prichard;James Theiler

  • Protective association of genetic variation in alcohol dehydrogenase with alcohol dependence in Native American Mission Indians

    Tamara L. Wall;Lucinda G. Carr;Cindy L. Ehlers

  • Measuring historical trauma in an American Indian community sample: Contributions of substance dependence, affective disorder, conduct disorder and PTSD

    Cindy L. Ehlers;Ian R. Gizer;David A. Gilder;Jarrod M. Ellingson

  • Biological rhythms and depression: The role of zeitgebers and zeitstorers

    Cindy L. Ehlers;Cindy L. Ehlers;David J. Kupfer;Ellen Frank;Timothy H. Monk

  • Verbal learning differences in epileptic patients with left and right temporal lobe foci

    Dan Mungas;Cindy Ehlers;Nancy Walton;Charlotte B. McCutchen

Frequent Co-Authors

Kirk C. Wilhelmsen
Kirk C. Wilhelmsen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David J. Kupfer
David J. Kupfer University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Marc A. Schuckit
Marc A. Schuckit University of California, San Diego
Ting-Kai Li
Ting-Kai Li Duke University
Edward P. Riley
Edward P. Riley San Diego State University
George F. Koob
George F. Koob National Institute on Drug Abuse
Patricia Robledo
Patricia Robledo Institut Hospital del Mar d'Investigacions Mèdiques
Fulton T. Crews
Fulton T. Crews University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Wendy S. Slutske
Wendy S. Slutske University of Missouri
Nicholas J. Schork
Nicholas J. Schork Translational Genomics Research Institute

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