50405-Aloi, Joey
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Joey Aloi, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Psychiatry

Bio

Joseph Aloi, MD, PhD, joins the Department of Psychiatry as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry. Dr. Aloi will be joining the IU School of Medicine faculty while he completes his Child Psychiatry Fellowship, which he is expected to graduate from in 2026. Dr. Aloi previously completed his general psychiatry residency in the department. He earned his MD and PhD in Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, where he conducted neuroimaging research focused on reinforcement learning, motivation, and developmental psychopathology. Dr. Aloi also holds a bachelor's in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During his time as a resident, Dr. Aloi won the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Pilot Research Award for General Psychiatry Residents and was a recipient of the NIMH Outstanding Resident Award, among other honors. Dr. Aloi co-directs the Lifespan Resilience to Addiction and Family Trauma (LifeRAFT) lab with Dr. Kathleen Crum and was recently awarded a K23 award from NIDA entitled "Neuroimaging of Instrumental Learning Networks in Adolescent Cannabis Use Treatment." This project will allow him to develop his research, which integrates neuroimaging, computational modeling, and advanced statistical methodologies to investigate neuro-computational dysfunction underlying decision-making and cognitive/affective processes in adolescent substance use disorders (SUDs). He is also co-PI on a project examining emotion-guided reinforcement learning and callous-unemotional traits in youths with disruptive behavior disorders.  Clinically, Dr. Aloi will provide psychiatric evaluation and treatment for children and adolescents, with expertise in externalizing disorders, substance use, and complex developmental presentations.

Key Publications

Mattey Mora, P, Murray, OK, Aloi, J, Dzemidzic, M, and Hulvershorn LA (Accepted). Brain activation during risky decision-making predicts risky substance use in youth with externalizing behaviors. Neuropsychopharmacology.

Murray, OK, Mattey Mora, P, Aloi, J, Lovins, S, and Hulvershorn LA (2025). Sex differences in reward network activation are linked to problematic substance use among high-risk adolescents. Advances in Drug and Alcohol Research, 4(5), 14591. doi: 10.3389/adar.2025.14591.

Aloi, J, Korin, T, Murray, OK, Crum, KI, LeFevre, K, Dzemidzic, M, and Hulvershorn, LA (2025). Latent profiles of impulsivity and emotion regulation in children with externalizing disorders are associated with alterations in striatocortical connectivity. Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 10(12), 1258-1267. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2025.02.013

Aloi, J, Crum, KI, Blair, KS, Zhang, R, Bashford-Largo, J, Bajaj, S, Hwang, S, Averbeck, BB, Tottenham, N, Dobbertin, M, and Blair, RJR (2024). Childhood neglect is associated with alterations in neural prediction error signaling and the response to novelty. Psychological Medicine, 54(14), 3930-3938. doi: 10.1017/S0033291724002411

Aloi, J, and Hulvershorn, LA. (2022). Editorial: The epidemiology and cognitive characteristic of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder depend on how strictly the disorder is defined. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 61(10), 1221-1223. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2022.06.012.

Aloi, J, Crum, KI, Blair, KS, Zhang, R, Bashford-Largo, J, Bajaj, S, Schwartz, A, Carollo, E, Hwang, S, Leiker, E, Filbey, FM, Averbeck, BB, Dobbertin, M, and Blair, RJR. (2021).  Individual associations of adolescent alcohol use disorder versus cannabis use disorder symptoms in neural prediction error signaling and the response to novelty. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 48, 100944. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2021.100944.

Aloi J, Blair, KS, Crum, KI, Bashford-Largo, J, Zhang, R, Lukoff, J, Carollo, E, White, SF, Hwang, S, Filbey, FM, Dobbertin, M, and Blair, RJR. (2020). Alcohol use disorder, but not cannabis use disorder, symptomatology in adolescents is associated with reduced differential responsiveness to reward versus punishment feedback during instrumental learning.  Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, 5(6), 610-618. doi: 10.1016/j.bpsc.2020.02.003.

Blair, KS, Aloi, J, Crum, KI, Meffert, H, White, SF, Taylor, BK, Leiker, EK, Thornton, L, Tyler, PM, Shah, N, Johnson, K, Abdel-Rahim, H, Lukoff, J, Dobbertin, M, Pope, K, Pollak, S, and Blair, RJ. (2019). Assessment of different types of childhood maltreatment with emotional responding and response control among adolescents. JAMA Network Open, 2(5). doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.4604.

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