Lisa Cottone, PhD
Certifications:
Ph.D. Biopsychology
Professional Associations:
American Academy of Sleep Medicine
Area of Focus:
- Sleep disorders
- Circadian rhythms
- Brain processing during sleep and wakefulness
- Addiction (including substances, food, gambling) and substance misuse
- Neuroimaging tools in research
- Electroencephalography tools (EEG, evoked potentials, event-related potentials) in research and clinical settings
- Neuropsychological assessment in research
- Relationship between substance misuse and mental health
Education:
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow – Brookhaven National Labratory
Ph.D., Biopsychology – Stony Brook University
B.S., Psychology – Fordham University
Research Publications
- Goldstein, Rita & Tomasi, Dardo & Alia-Klein, Nelly & Cottone, Lisa & Zhang, Lei & Telang, Frank & Volkow, Nora. (2007). Subjective sensitivity to monetary gradients is associated with frontolimbic activation to reward in cocaine abusers. Drug and alcohol dependence. 87. 233-40. 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2006.08.022.
- Goldstein, Rita & Tomasi, Dardo & Rajaram, Suparna & Cottone, Lisa & Zhang, Lei & Maloney, Thomas & Telang, Frank & Alia-Klein, Nelly & Volkow, Nora. (2007). Role of the anterior cingulate and medial orbitofrontal cortex in processing drug cues in cocaine addiction. Neuroscience. 144. 1153-9. 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.11.024.
- Goldstein, Rita & Alia-Klein, Nelly & Tomasi, Dardo & Zhang, Lei & Cottone, Lisa & Maloney, Thomas & Telang, Frank & Caparelli, Elisabeth & Chang, Linda & Ernst, Thomas & Samaras, Dimitris & Squires, Nancy & Volkow, Nora. (2007). Is Decreased Prefrontal Cortical Sensitivity to Monetary Reward Associated With Impaired Motivation and Self-Control in Cocaine Addiction?. The American journal of psychiatry. 164. 43-51. 10.1176/appi.ajp.164.1.43.
- Goldstein, Rita & Cottone, Lisa & Jia, Zhiru & Maloney, Thomas & Volkow, Nora & Squires, Nancy. (2006). The effect of graded monetary reward on cognitive event-related potentials and behavior in young healthy adults. International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology. 62. 272-9. 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2006.05.006.
- Cottone, L. A., Adamo, D., & Squires, N. K. (2004). The effect of unilateral somatosensory stimulation on hemispheric asymmetries during slow wave sleep. Sleep, 27(1), 63-68.
Book & Textbook Publications:
- Doctoral Dissertation Research Project – Cognitive Processing of Auditory Stimuli during Sleep and Wakefulness: an Event-Related Potential Approach (2003). Department of Psychology, Stony Brook University, NY.
- Goldstein, R., Alia-Klein, N., Cottone, L., & Volkow, N. (2006). The orbitofrontal cortex in drug addiction. The orbitofrontal cortex, 481-522.