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Ongoing research programs are designed to evealuate individual differences in the behavioral effects
of drugs with abuse liability in men and women. Experimental procedures have been established to measure the
effects of hormones and drugs of abuse on multiple dimensions of human behavior, including neuroactivation,
drug reinforcement, discriminative stimulus effects of drugs, learning ability, reaction time, temporal discrimination,
psychomotor performance, food consumption, social behavior, physiological reactivity, tobacco cigarette smoking
behavior, mood, impulsivity and sexual-decision making, and subjective report of drug effects. Ongoing studies utilize
these procedures to evaluate the effects of pharmacotherapies, gender, menstrual cycle phase, age and personality on
the behavioral effects of medications with abuse liability. Dr. Kelly has been involved in laboratory research
evaluating the neurobiology of human appetite, and on the interrelationship between nutrients and the self-administration
of alcohol and other drugs with abuse liability.
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