adrian raine

Adrian Raine is a Robert G. Wright Professor of Psychology.
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What kind of research do you conduct?

My research has focused on the biosocial bases of antisocial and violent behavior in both children and adults.  Research interests include brain imaging, psychophysiology, neurochemistry, antisocial behavior, schizotypal personality, and alcoholism. Essentailly, we study the "criminal brain". Why do people become criminal and violent? Is there a brain basis to this behavior? And are such people fully responsible for their actions? These are some of the key questions that my laboratory attempts to answer. In addition, we also conduct research on alcoholism, drug abuse, and schizotypal personality.

In a typical semester, how many undergraduates do you work with? What kind of research activities do the undergraduate students perform?

Typically three to six. Their activities include collecting and analyzing psychophysiological data, conducting neuropsychological tests on research subjects, brain imaging, hormone assays, library searches and data entry.

What are some of your recent undergraduate projects?

1. Analyzing psychophysiological data and collected on subjects from Mauritius. These subjects are part of a longitudinal study where we are looking at biological and social predictors of violence and alcoholism.

2. Analyzing brain imaging data (magnetic resonance imaging) and calculating volumes for different brain areas thought to be involved in violence and antisocial behavior.

3. Collecting and analyzing psychophysiological and neuropsychological data on subjects tested in our laboratory in order to look more closely at the links between these measures and antisocial personality disorder.

4. Perform hormone assays on saliva samples collected in our laboratory and in Mauritius to look at cortisol and testosterone levels and how they relate to antisocial behavior.

To find out more about Dr. Raines and his research, please visit his homepage.