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Brian O'Donnell

Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Founding Lab PI

Phone:
(812) 856-4164
Email:
bodonnel@indiana.edu
Website:
https://psych.indiana.edu/directory/faculty/odonnell-brian.html
Department:
Psychological and Brain Sciences; Program and Neuroscience; Program and Neuroscience
Campus:
IU Bloomington

Resume/CV

Psychology
1101 E. 10th St.
Bloomington, IN 47405

O'Donnell, B.F., Bismark, A., Hetrick, W.P., Bodkins M., Vohs, J.L., Shekhar, A. (2006). Early stage vision in schizophrenia and schizotypal personality disorder.  Schizophrenia Research, 86:89-98.

Skosnik PD, Krishnan GP, O'Donnell BF. (2007). The Effect of Selective Attention on the Gamma-Band Auditory Steady-State Response.  Neuroscience Letters, 420, 223-228.

Vohs JL, Hetrick WP, Kieffaber PD, Bodkins M, Bismark A, Shekhar A. , O'Donnell B.F.(2008). Visual Event-Related Potentials in Schizotypal Personality Disorder and Schizophrenia.  Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 117, 119-131.

Vohs JL, R. Chambers AR, Krishnan GP,  O'Donnell BF, Hetrick WP, Kaiser ST, Berg S, Morzorati SL. (2009). Auditory Sensory Gating in the Neonatal Ventral Hippocampal Lesion Model of Schizophrenia. Neuropsychobiology, 60, 12-22.

Krishnan GP, Hetrick WP, Brenner CA, Shekhar A, Steffen AN, O'Donnell BF. (2009). Steady state and induced auditory gamma deficits in schizophrenia.  Neuroimage, 47, 1711-1719.

Brenner CA, Kieffaber PD, Clementz BA, Johannesen JK, Shekhar A, O'Donnell BF, Herick WP. Event-related Potential Abnormalities in Schizophrenia: A Failure to "Gate In" Salient Information? Schizophrenia Research 2009;113:332-338.

Vohs JL, Chambers AR, Krishnan GP, O'Donnell BF, Berg S, Morzorati SL. (2009). GABAergic modulation of the 40 Hz auditory steady state response in a rat model of schizophrenia.  International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology, 23, 1-11.

Fridberg, D. J., Hetrick, W.P., Brenner, C.A., Shekhar, A., Steffen, A.N., Malloy, F. W., & O'Donnell, B. F. (2009). Relationships between auditory event-related potentials and mood state, medication, and comorbid psychiatric illness in patients with bipolar disorder. Bipolar Disorder, 35, 857-866.

Brenner CA, Krishnan GP, Vohs JL, Ahn WY, Hetrick WP, Morzorati SL, O'Donnell BF.(2009). Steady State Responses: Electrophysiological Assessment of Sensory Function in Schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 35, 1065-1077.

Krishnan G.P., Vohs J.L., Carroll C.A., Hetrick W.P., Shekhar A., Bockbrader M.A., O'Donnell B.F. (2005). Steady state visual evoked potential abnormalities in schizophrenia.  Clinical Neurophysiology, 116, 614-624.

Krishnan GP, Skosnik PD, Vohs JL, Busey TA, O'Donnell BF. (2005). Relationship between steady state and induced gamma activity to motion. Neuroreport, 16, 625-630.

Brian O’Donnell is a psychologist and co-director of the Clinical and Cognitive Neuroscience Research Center with Dr. Hetrick.  His research program applies cognitive neuroscience methods to explicate the pathophysiological mechanisms and to develop treatments for mental illness, including psychotic disorders, bipolar disorder and substance use disorders.  He is grateful for support of this research by the National Institutes of Mental Health, the National Institutes of Drug Abuse, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the Brain Behavior and Research Foundation, Indiana University, the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and private industry.  Projects have included:

  • Disturbances of neural oscillations and timing in schizophrenia
  • Alterations in brain structure and function in cannabis users
  • Neurobiological and cognitive effects of novel therapies for psychosis
  • Visual perception in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and autism spectrum disorders
  • Computational analysis of language and decision making in severe mental illness
  • Pharmacological studies of neural synchrony and behavior in rodents
  • Neural and psychological predictors of outcomes in bipolar disorder

Dr. O’Donnell received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1984.  He was on the faculty at University of Massachusetts Medical School from 1985 to 1990, Harvard University Medical School from 1990 to 1998, and joined the faculty of Indiana University in 1998. 

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