REAGAN R. WETHERILL
GRADUATE STUDENT
Reagan Wetherill graduated from Vanderbilt University with her Bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Neuroscience in 2002.  While at Vanderbilt, she assisted research studies under Dr. Ford F. Ebner, studying synaptic plasticity of normal and damaged cortex. 

After graduating, Reagan began a fellowship at the National Institutes of Health at the National Institute on Drugs of Abuse/Johns Hopkins University under Roy Wise, Ph.D., Satoshi Ikemoto, Ph.D., and Marisela Morales, Ph.D.  While at NIDA, she studied the afferents and efferents of the Vental Tegmental Area using immunohistochemistry techniques in hopes to better understand the role of the VTA in addiction.

Reagan started at the University of Texas at Austin and joined the SAHARA lab in August of 2002.  She has begun lab-related research, which includes developmental trajectories and social factors that influence alcohol-use and risky sexual behavior (Wetherill & Fromme, in press).  Her current research interests involve a simulated bar laboratory study and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine memory and neural processes associated with alcohol-induced blackouts.  Reagan plans to pursue a career in academia and neuropsychology.