Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Professor, Department of Neurosciences
Medical Research Career Specialist, Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center |
EDUCATION | State University of New York, Buffalo, NY | B.S. | 1979 | Biology | | Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ | M.S. | 1984 | Biopsychology | | Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ | Ph.D. | 1984 | Biopsychology | | Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC | Postdoctoral | 1985 | Psychiatry/Alcohol Research |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE | 1985-1987 | Instructor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, MUSC, Charleston, SC | | 1985-1991 | Research Health Scientist, Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Charleston, SC | | 1987-1990 | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, MUSC, Charleston, SC | | 1990-1998 | Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, MUSC, Charleston, SC | | 1990-present | Adjunct Professor, Psychology Department, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC | | 1991-present | Medical Research Career Scientist, Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Charleston, SC | | 1990-1998 | Associate Professor, Department of Neurosciences, MUSC, Charleston, SC | | 1998-present | Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Neurosciences, MUSC, Charleston, SC | | 1999-present | Scientific Director for Basic Research, Charleston Alcohol Research Center, MUSC, Charleston, SC |
AWARDS AND HONORS | 1991 | Health Sciences Foundation Developing Scholars Award, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC | | 1992-1995 | Member, VA Merit Review Board (Alcoholism and Drug Dependence) | | 1993-1994 | President, South Carolina Chapter of Society for Neuroscience | | 1994-1999 | Editorial Board: Alcohol Clin Exp Res | | 1994-2001 | Member, NIH/CSR, Neuroscience and Behavior IRG, NIAAA (ALTX-3) | | 1995-2000 | NIAAA Research Career Scientist Award | | 1996 | Member, VA Special Review Board for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Centers | | 1998 | Member, VA Special Review Board for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Research Centers | | 1998 | Member, NIAAA Special Review Board for Alcohol Research Centers | | 1999-2003 | Member, VA Behavioral, Psychiatric and Addictive Disorders Medical Research Advisory Group | | 2000 | Member, NIAAA Special Review Board for Alcohol Research Centers | | 2001-2005 | Elected Member, Board of Directors, Research Society on Alcoholism | | 2002 | Member, NIAAA Special Review Board for Alcohol Research Centers | | 2002-2005 | Chair, Elections Committee, Research Society on Alcoholism | | 2005-present | Editorial Board: Alcohol | | 2006-present | Scientific Director, NIAAA Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism (INIA-Stress Consortium) |
PUBLICATONS (2006-present)
Becker HC & Baros AM. Effect of duration and pattern of chronic ethanol exposure on tolerance to the discriminative stimulus effects of ethanol in C57BL/6J mice. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 319(2):871-878, 2006. Becker HC, Myrick H & Veatch LM. Pregabalin is effective against behavioral and electrographic seizures during alcohol withdrawal. Alcohol & Alcoholism 41(4):399-406, 2006. Goldowitz D, Matthews DB, Hamre KM, Mittleman G, Chesler EJ, Becker HC, Lopez MF, Jones SR, Mathews TA, Miles MF, Kerns R & Grant KA. Progress in using mouse inbred strains, consomic, and mutants to identify genes related to stress, anxiety, and alcohol phenotypes. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research 30(6):1066-1078, 2006. Hodge CW, Grant KA, Becker HC, Besheer J, Crissman AM, Platt DM, Shannon EE & Shelton KL. Understanding how the brain perceives alcohol: Neurobiological basis of ethanol discrimination. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research 30(2):203-213, 2006. Griffin WC, 3rd, Middaugh LD & Becker HC. Voluntary ethanol drinking in mice and ethanol concentrations in the nucleus accumbens. Brain Research 1138:208-213, 2007. |
