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Corinde E. Wiers

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Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
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Department: Psychiatry
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21 a B.Sc. 1a (Psychobiology) c
30 University of Amsterdam, 2008.
21 a M.Sc. 17 (Psychology) c
30 University of Amsterdam, 2010.
21 a Ph.D. 18 (Psychology ) c
32 Freie Universität Berlin, 2014.
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24 a0 Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Neuroimaging, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, 2014-2020.
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Description of Research Expertise

137 The Wiers Lab at Penn focuses on cognitive and neurobiological processes involved in substance use disorder (AUD) using PET and MRI neuroimaging. We investigate the effects of metabolic ketosis on brain energetics and alcohol consumption in AUD (funded by a NIAAA R21, R21/R33 and R01. K99/R00).
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Selected Publications

1f2 Wiers CE*, Vendruscolo L*, van der Veen JW, Manza P, Shokri-Kojori E, Kroll D, Feldman D, McPherson K, Biesecker E, Zhang R, Herman K, Elvig SK, Vendruscolo JCM, Turner SA, Yang S, Schwandt M, Tomasi D, Cervenka MC, Fink-Jensen A, Benveniste H, Diazgranados N, Wang GJ, Koob GF, Volkow ND: Ketogenic diet reduces alcohol withdrawal symptoms in humans and alcohol intake in rodents. Science Advances 7(15): eabf6780, Apr 2021.

15f Wiers CE, Martins De Carvalho L, Hodgkinson CA, Schwandt M, Kim SW, Diazgranados N, Wang GJ, Goldman D, Volkow ND: TSPO polymorphism in individuals with alcohol use disorder: Association with cholesterol levels and withdrawal severity. Addiction Biology 26(1): e12838, Jan 2021.

14f Wiers CE, Cunningham SI, Tomasi DG, Ernst T, Chang L, Shokri-Kojori E, Wang GJ, Volkow ND.: Elevated thalamic glutamate levels and reduced water diffusivity in alcohol use disorder: Association with impulsivity. Psychiatry Res Neuroimaging 305: 111185, Nov 2020.

13c Wiers CE, Towb PC, Hodgkinson CA, Shen PH, Freeman C, Miller G, Lindgren E, Shokri-Kojori E, Demiral S¸B, Kim SW, Tomasi D, Sun H, Wang GJ, Goldman D, Volkow ND: Association of genetic ancestry with striatal dopamine D2/D3 receptor availability. Mol Psychiatry 2e 23(8): 1711-16, Aug 2018.

19c Shokri-Kojori E, Wang GJ, Wiers CE, Demiral S¸B, Guo M, Kim SW, Lindgren E, Ramirez V, Zehra A, Freeman C, Miller G, Manza P, Srivastava T, De Santi S, Tomasi D, Benveniste H, Volkow ND: β-Amyloid accumulation in the human brain after one night of sleep deprivation. PNAS 115(17): 4483-4488, Apr 2018 Notes: doi: 10.1073/pnas.1721694115.

16a Volkow ND, Wiers CE, Shokri-Kojori E, Tomasi D, Wang GJ, Baler R: Neurochemical and metabolic effects of acute and chronic alcohol in the human brain: studies with positron emission tomography. Neuropharmacology 122: 175-188, Aug 2017 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2017.01.012. IF: 5.1.

197 Wiers CE, Stelzel C, Park SQ, Gawron CK, Ludwig VU, Gutwinski S, Heinz A, Lindenmeyer J, Wiers RW, Walter H, Bermpohl F: Neural correlates of alcohol-approach bias in alcohol addiction: the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak for spirits. Neuropsychopharmacology 39(3): 688-697, Feb 2014 Notes: doi: 10.1038/npp.2013.252. IF: 7.8.

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