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Paul S Regier

Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Department: Psychiatry

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3535 Market Street
Suite 500
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 2157463706
Education:
B.S. (Psychology)
University of Nebraska at Omaha, 2007.
Ph.D. (Neuroscience)
University of Minnesota, 2015.
Post-Graduate Training
NIDA T32 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 2015-2018.
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania, 2018-2023.
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Selected Publications

Regier PS, Kampman KK, Kember RL, Romer D: The Neurobiology and Genetics of Substance Use Disorder in Treating and Preventing Adolescent Mental Health Disorders. Oxford University Press. Dwight L. Evans, Edna B. Foa, Martin E. Franklin, Raquel E. Gur, Kyle Kampman, Christine Yu Moutier, Maria A. Oquendo, Daniel Romer, Moira A. Rynn, Martin E. P. Seligman, Robyn Sysko, and B. Timothy Walsh (eds.). 1(1), Oct 2025 Notes: ISBN: 9780197683705, https://doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780199928163.001.0001.

Tufanoglu A, Ayaz A, Childress AR, Regier PS.: "Brain-Behavioral Vulnerabilities in Opioid Use Disorder" College on Problems of Drug Dependence Jun 2025.

Sinko L, Regier P, de Arruda TCM, Ayaz H, Aryal S, Childress AR, Teitelman AM.: The Relationship Between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Executive Function for Those in Recovery from Opioid Use Disorder: A Brief Report of a Pilot Study. Journal of Family Violence Apr 2025 Notes: doi: 10.1007/s10896-025-00876-3.

Regier PS, Hager NM, Gawrysiak M, Ehmann S, Ayaz H, Childress AR, Fan Y: Differential large-scale network functional connectivity in cocaine-use disorder associates with drug-use outcomes. Scientific Reports. Springer Nature, 15(1): 9636, Mar 2025 Notes: DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-91465-3.

Arruda T, Sinko L, Regier P, Tufanoglu A, Curtin A, Teitelman A, Ayaz H, Cronholm P, Childress AR.: Exploring Social Impairment in Those with Opioid Use Disorder: Linking Impulsivity, Childhood Trauma, and the Prefrontal Cortex. BMC Psychiatry 25(1): 197, Mar 2025 Notes: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4202009/v1.

Regier PS, de Arruda TCM, Sinko L, Teitelman AM, Childress AR: Factors Associated with Cognitive Flexibility in People with Opioid-Use Disorder: A Pilot Study. Frontiers in Psychiatry 15, December 2024 Notes: Accepted for Publication.

Mugan U, Amemiya S, Regier PS, Redish AD: Navigation Through the Complex World: The Neurophysiology of Decision-Making Processes. Springer. Youna Vandaele (eds.). Springer Nature, Page: 109-139, April 2024.

Regier PS, Gonzenbach V, Sweeney E, Shinohara R, Childress AR: Assessing Amygdala Habituation as it Relates to Substance-Use Disorder Vulnerability: Using Data From the ABCD Study® College on Problems of Drug Dependence June 2023.

Regier PS, Gawrysiak MJ, Jagannathan K, Childress AR, Franklin TR, Wetherill RR: Trauma exposure among cannabis use disorder individuals was associated with a craving-correlated non-habituating amygdala response to aversive cues. Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports 5: 100098, Dec 2022.

Ugurcan Mugan, Samantha Hoffman, Paul J. Cunningham, Paul S. Regier, Seiichiro Amemiya, A. David Redish: "Environmental complexity modulates the arbitration between deliberative and habitual decision-making" Cosyne 284, Mar 2022.

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