Richard L. Bell, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
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Richard L. Bell, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis. Dr. Bell’s research focuses on the development of alcohol use disorders (AUDs) in rodent models of high ethanol consumption. His interests include a genetic predisposition to develop an AUD, and how selective breeding for this behavior results in animal models that parallel genotypes and phenotypes observed in family history positive, for an AUD, individuals. He also investigates autonomic (e.g., changes in heart rate) reactivity to alcohol/ethanol-associated cues, e.g., cue-reactivity to environmental stimuli linked with alcohol self-administration. Finally, he continues to examine the effects of alcohol exposure and/or self-administration during adolescence and emerging adulthood on subsequent neurobiology and behavior in adulthood.
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Books and Special Issues
Effects of Peri-Adolescent Licit and Illicit Drug Use on the Developing CNS, Part II. 2022. R.L. Bell, S. Rahman (Eds.). Oxford, United Kingdom: Academic Press/Elsevier. International Review of Neurobiology, Vol 161.
Effects of Peri-Adolescent Licit and Illicit Drug Use on the Developing CNS, Part I. 2021. R.L. Bell, S. Rahman (Eds.). Oxford, United Kingdom: Academic Press/Elsevier. International Review of Neurobiology, Vol 160.
Animal Models for Medications Screening to Treat Addiction. 2016. R.L. Bell, S. Rahman (Eds.). Oxford, United Kingdom: Academic Press/Elsevier. International Review of Neurobiology, Vol 126.
Research Topic (Special Issue): Molecular Targets for the Treatment of Alcohol and Drug Dependence. 2015. Frontiers in Neuroscience/Neuropharmacology. Y. Sari & R.L. Bell (Eds.). Lausanne, Switzerland: Frontiers Publishing Group.
F.C. Zhou & R.L. Bell (Eds.). Oak Park, IL, USA: Bentham Science Publishers. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/157488912800673191 Special Issue on "Pharmacotherapies for the Treatment of Alcohol Abuse and Dependence" in Recent Patents on CNS Drug Discovery; 2012.
| Year | Degree | Institution |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | PhD | University of New Orleans |
| 1996 | MS | University of New Orleans |
| 1994 | BA | Minot State University |
Dr. Bell is a member of the Department’s Addiction Psychiatry training and research program. He has maintained continuous funding from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/Health and Human Services (HHS) since 2001. He has 180 publications: 131 original investigations, 24 review papers, 21 book chapters, 4 editorials; edited 2 journal special issues with Feng Zhou, Ph.D. and Youssef Sari, PhD., and edited 3 books, in the International Reviews in Neurobiology series, with his colleague Shafiq Rahman, Ph.D.