Dr. Brady is Director of the Clinical Neuroscience Division, the Women’s Research Center, the General Clinical Research Center (GCRC), Principal Investigator of the Southern Consortium of NIDA’s Clinical Trials Network, and Associate Dean for Clinical Research. Dr. Brady’s research is devoted to the study of drug and alcohol abuse/addiction and comorbid conditions such as posttraumatic stress disorder and other anxiety disorders. Her areas of specialty include addiction and comorbidity, gender and women’s issues related to addiction, stress, and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis functioning in substance-dependent individuals. Dr. Brady’s recent research includes an interest in the interface between basic and clinical science investigating the mechanistic connection between stress and substance use disorders and in the translation of empirically-based treatments from academic medical centers to front-line treatment settings.
