About:

Dr. de Wit received her PhD in Expermental Psychology from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. She has been on faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago for over 20 years, and is currently Associate Professor and Director of the Human Behavioral Pharmacology Laboratory. Dr. de Wit conducts laboratory-based research on the psychopharmacology of drugs of abuse. Her current research interests include genetic sources of individual variation in responses to drugs, interactions between acute stress and drugs, and the role of impulsivity in drug abuse.

Dr. de Wit is a Fellow of several scientific organizations, including the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. She is a Field Editor for the journal Psychopharmacology , and Deputy Editor for Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research . She serves on the Training and Career Development Subcommittee Initial Review Group of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and she is supported by research grants from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. In 1999 she received the Solvay Award for Outstanding Basic Psychopharmacological Research in Affective Disorders from the American Psychological Association (Division 28).

Lott, D.C., S.-J. Kim, E.H. Cook Dopamine transporter gene associated with diminished subjective response to amphetamine. Neuropsychopharmacology, 30, 602-609, 2005 .

Mahler, S.V. and H. de Wit Effects of haloperidol on reactions to smoking cues in humans. Behavioural Pharmacology , 16, 123-126, 2005.

Young, E.M., S.V. Mahler, H. Chi, H. de Wit Mecamylamine and ethanol preference in healthy volunteers. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research , 29, 58-65, 2005.

Hohoff, C., J.M. McDonald, B.T. Baune, E.H. Cook, J. Deckert, H. de Wit Interindividual variation in anxiety response to amphetamine: Possible role for adenosine A 2A receptor gene variants. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics . DOI 10.1002/ajmg.b.30228

Reynolds, B., A. Ortengren, J.B. Richards, H. de Wit Dimensions of impulsive behavior: Personality and behavioral measures. Personality and Individual Differences (in press).

Holdstock, L., S.N. Penland, A.L. Morrow, H. de Wit. Moderate doses of ethanol fail to increase plasma levels of neurosteroid 3?-hydroxy-5?-pregnan-20-one in healthy men and women. Psychopharmacology (in press).

Veenstra-Vander Weele, J., A. Qaadir, A.A. Palmer, E.H. Cook, Jr, H. de Wit, Association between the Casein Kinase 1 Epsilon gene region and subjective response to D-amphetamine. Neuropsychopharmacology (in press).

White, T.L., D. Lott, and H. de Wit Personality differences in the acute effects of amphetamine on mood in healthy volunteers. Neuropsychopharmacology (in press).

Acheson, A., B. Reynolds, J.B. Richards, H. de Wit Diazepam impairs behavioral inhibition but not delay discounting or risk taking in healthy adults. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology (in press).