Amanda Lee Persons, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Psychiatry, Rush Medical College

Director, Facility for Rodent Models of Human Brain Disease, Center for Compulsive Behavior and Addiction

Education

PhD, Loyola University Chicago
BS, Lewis University

Research Areas

Substance abuse and neurological disorders, substance abuse and HIV/AIDS comorbidity, the brain/gut axis, impulse control disorders in Parkinson’s disease, substance abuse prevention and education

Contact Info:

1735 W. Harrison St.
Suite 422
Chicago, IL 60612
Phone: (312) 563-2416
Fax: (312) 563-2403

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Biography

Amanda L. Persons, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Pharmacology and a member of the Center for Compulsive Behavior and Addiction. She conducts preclinical research in collaboration with T. Celeste Napier, PhD, on substance abuse and neurological disorders with an emphasis on methamphetamine abuse, Parkinson’s disease and HIV. She received her PhD in pharmacology from Loyola University Chicago in 2009 and trained as a postdoctoral fellow in neurodegenerative diseases at Rush University.

Publications

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/browse/collection/47515542/?sort=date…