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Alcohol

This field of research investigates the impacts of alcohol on mental health, and explores strategies to promote resilience in individuals at risk of addiction.

Areas of Focus

  • Neurobiological and neurocognitive predictors and consequences
  • Ecological momentary assessments
  • Early intervention
  • Treatment development
  • Treatment outcomes
  • Pharmacotherapy for AUD
  • Special populations, including adolescents, veterans, and LGBTI+ community members
  • Comorbidity with cannabis or nicotine use
  • Comorbidity with mental health disorders

Our research includes:

  • Investigations to characterize the neurobiological and neurocognitive predictors and consequences of alcohol use

  • Laboratory and ecological momentary assessment studies of the contextual factors, mechanisms, and consequences of alcohol use

  • Longitudinal cohort studies

  • Treatment development and treatment outcome studies;

  • Studies of pharmacotherapy for alcohol use disorder, including pharmacotherapies with adolescents

  • Early intervention research.

A significant body of work has focused on comorbidity, particularly the comorbidity of alcohol with cannabis use, affective and other mental disorders, and cigarette smoking.

Adolescent use is another focus of our research, including etiology and brief interventions for adolescent alcohol misuse. Extensive treatment studies involve a variety of populations with particular emphasis on adolescents, college students, patients in substance use treatment programs, incarcerated populations, and emergency department patients. Many of these studies employ modern communication technologies, including text messaging, to deliver behavioral interventions.

Through the Alcohol Research Center on HIV, CAAS faculty collaborate on programmatic research on the biobehavioral interactions of alcohol use and HIV infection. This research examines neurobiology of alcohol use in people living with HIV, the role of alcohol use on HIV transmission, and interventions to address alcohol use in people living with HIV and those at high risk for HIV infection.

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Everyday Health

Heavy and Even Moderate Drinking Can Harm the Brain, Study Finds

April 10, 2025
CAAS faculty Chris Kahler and Mollie Monnig were quoted in an article by Every Day Health about the effects of drinking on the brain.
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News from SPH

New study finds surprising way to curb college-aged drinking harms—without cutting alcohol

April 9, 2025
A complementary approach called Counter-Attitudinal Advocacy has been found to help young adults reduce the harms related to heavy drinking by shifting how they think—not how much they drink.
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New York Times

The People Who Never Get Hangovers

March 22, 2025
Dr. Rohsenow, a professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences and associate director of the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, was quoted in The New York Times for her research on hangovers.
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Faculty

Faculty engaged in alcohol-related research

  • Nancy Barnett

    Nancy Barnett

    Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
    nancy_barnett@brown.edu
  • Capone

    Christy Capone

    Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
    christy_capone@brown.edu
  • Carey

    Kate Carey

    Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    kate_carey@brown.edu
  • Colby

    Suzanne Colby

    Deputy Director of the Center for Alcohol & Addiction Studies, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
    suzanne_colby@brown.edu
  • Gunn

    Rachel Gunn

    Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    rachel_gunn@brown.edu
  • caroline haass-koffler

    Carolina Haass-Koffler

    Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
    carolina_haass-koffler@brown.edu
  • tim janssen

    Tim Janssen

    Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    tim_janssen@brown.edu
  • Kahler

    Christopher Kahler

    Director, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
    christopher_kahler@brown.edu
  • Molly Magill

    Molly Magill

    Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    molly_magill@brown.edu
  • Ateev

    Ateev Mehrotra

    Chair of Department of Health Services, Policy & Practice, Professor of Health Services, Policy & Practice
    ateev_mehrotra@brown.edu
  • matthew meisel

    Matthew Meisel

    Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    matthew_meisel@brown.edu
  • jennifer merrill

    Jennifer Merrill

    Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    jennifer_merrill@brown.edu
  • jane metrik

    Jane Metrik

    Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
    jane_metrik@brown.edu
  • Micalizzi

    Lauren Micalizzi

    Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    lauren_micalizzi@brown.edu
  • robert miranda

    Robert Miranda

    Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Training Director of the Postdoctoral Training Program
    robert_miranda_jr@brown.edu
  • Monnig

    Mollie Monnig

    Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    mollie_monnig@brown.edu
  • peter monti

    Peter Monti

    Donald G. Millar Distinguished Professor of Alcohol and Addiction Studies, Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    peter_monti@brown.edu
  • Sokolovsky

    Alexander Sokolovsky

    Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    alexander_sokolovsky@brown.edu
  • robert swift

    Robert Swift

    Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
    robert_swift_md@brown.edu
  • hayley treloar

    Hayley Treloar Padovano

    Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    hayley_treloar@brown.edu
  • tara white

    Tara White

    Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    tara_white@brown.edu
  • tyler wray

    Tyler Wray

    Edens Family Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences
    tyler_wray@brown.edu

Affiliated Centers

Brown research units with a primary focus on alcohol research

Alcohol Research Center on HIV

The Alcohol Research Center on HIV (ARCH) is a multidisciplinary program project grant focused on reducing the impact of alcohol on the breadth and depth of the HIV epidemic. Funded by NIAAA in September of 2010, the ARCH comprises 3 major research components in addition to an Administrative Core and a Research Methods Core.
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