Principal Investigators //
- Kareem Al-Khalil, PhD >
- Nathaniel Anderson, PhD >
- Vince Calhoun, PhD >
- Felicha Candelaria-Cook, PhD >
- Arvind Caprihan, PhD >
- Fadwa Cazala, PhD >
- Vince Clark, PhD >
- Eric D. Claus, PhD >
- Aparna Gullapalli, PhD >
- Faith Hanlon, PhD >
- Carla Harenski, PhD >
- Jon Houck, Ph.D. >
- Kent Hutchison, PhD >
- Kent A. Kiehl, PhD >
- Jeffrey D. Lewine, PhD >
- J. Michael Maurer, PhD >
- Andrew R. Mayer, PhD >
- Subhadip Paul, PhD >
- John Phillips, MD >
- Carlos Rodriguez, PhD
- Sephira Ryman, PhD, MS >
- Lori Sanfratello, PhD >
- Veronik Sicard, PhD >
- Julia M. Stephen, PhD >
- David B. Stone, PhD >
- Andrei Vakhtin, Ph.D. >
- Claire E. Wilcox, MD >
Carlos Rodriguez, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Rodriguez is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Mind Research Network working with Dr. Jon Houck. His previous work was broadly aimed at characterizing the behavioral, cognitive, and neurobiological abnormalities associated with moderate prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) in an animal model. An important line of this research was aimed at addressing the question of how moderate PAE alters functional network connectivity (FNC) by applying the group Independent Components Analysis (gICA) technique to fMRI data. Subsequent collaborative research explored the use of machine learning algorithms to non-invasively detect PAE from FNC data as a potential non-invasive diagnostic tool. Dr. Rodriguez has also collaborated with MRN investigators to characterize FNC in adolescents and young adults diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD). Currently, Dr. Rodriguez’s research efforts are aimed at exploring the effects of adolescent exposure to psychotropic substances on anticipatory and consummatory reward processing and investigating how related reward processing alterations confer risk for the development of alcohol or other drug use disorders.
Selected Publications //
- Detection of Prenatal Alcohol Exposure Using Machine Learning Classification and Resting-State Functional Network Connectivity Data >
- Social Order: Using the sequential structure of social interaction to discriminate abnormal social behavior in the rat >
- Ifenprodil infusion in agranular insular cortex alters social behavior and vocalizations in rats exposed to moderate levels of ethanol during prenatal development >
- Moderate prenatal alcohol exposure alters functional connectivity in the adult rat brain >
- Effects of sex and housing on social, spatial, and motor behavior in adult rats exposed to moderate levels of alcohol during prenatal development >
- Effects of moderate prenatal ethanol exposure and age on social behavior, spatial response perseveration errors and motor behavior >
- Moderate Prenatal Alcohol Exposure and Quantification of Social Behavior in Adult Rats >
