Robert Miranda
Brown University, RI·Psychology·Early-career
Most people who develop a drinking problem start drinking as teenagers, and rates of alcohol use disorder peak before age 21. Despite clear clinical demand, the treatments available to adolescents are psychosocial programs such as counseling that produce only modest benefits, and many young people never reach them at all.
- Fields
Psychology
Medicine & Clinical Research
Public Health & Epidemiology
- Topics
adolescent alcohol use
alcohol use disorder
addiction science
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jul 2028
What they work on
- Develop and collect pilot data on an integrated digital health platform built on gold-standard psychosocial interventions for treating alcohol use disorder among adolescents, aiming to widen access to evidence-based care.
- Refine an experimental therapeutics approach for adolescent alcohol misuse that yields high-quality information on whether a novel treatment merits further development, translating hypotheses from human laboratory research into real-world use.
- Mentor early-career clinical investigators in patient-oriented addiction research, covering mechanisms of alcohol use disorder onset and treatment effects, clinical trial methods, ecological momentary assessment of daily drinking and craving, and responsible conduct of research.
More about the research
This program combines patient-oriented research on adolescent alcohol misuse with mentoring of early-career clinical investigators in addiction science, with the goal of improving the treatment options available to youth.
Why it matters
Millions of American adolescents struggle to reduce their drinking, yet available treatments give only modest benefits and are often hard to access. Pilot work on a digital platform built around proven counseling approaches could point toward more accessible treatment for alcohol use disorder in young people, and the mentoring component trains the clinical researchers needed to test such treatments rigorously.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Cecilia Hinojosa
University of New Mexico, NM·Neuroscience·Early-career
Define sex differences in reward-related brain circuitry, including the striatum, that relate to alcohol craving and drinking in trauma-exposed women and men, using functional neuroimaging.
Kaileigh Byrne
Clemson University, SC·Psychology
Determine whether the RC-Link inpatient peer recovery coaching program reduces heavy drinking and improves remission and daily functioning in patients hospitalized with alcohol use disorder, compared with controls in a randomized trial.
Michael Arthur Russell
Pennsylvania State University, PA·Public Health & Epidemiology
Test whether TAC sensor features, namely rise rate, peak and rise duration of each day's alcohol curve, predict alcohol-related consequences on individual drinking days, compared with EMA phone self-reports, in 500 young adults.
The school
Brown University: 23 labs on PI Pages, $375M a year on research, 251 research doctorates a year.
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