Ellen Yeung, PhD
Title: | Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, The George Washington University |
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Office: | Room 206 |
Address: | 2125 G Street NW Washington, District Of Columbia 20052 |
Phone: | 202-994-6543 |
Email: |
[email protected] |
Current HIV/AIDS-Related Research Activities:
- Understanding the shared risk and resilience factors underlying addiction and chronic pain, and the mechanisms linking the two.
- Using a lifespan developmental perspective to examine the influences of genetics, social environment, and their interplay on the pathologies of addiction and pain; sensitivity to pain among individuals with addiction; susceptibility to addiction among patients with chronic pain; and the biopsychosocial pathways that may account for the reciprocal relation between addiction and chronic pain.
- Extending current research to understand the role of addiction-pain comorbidity among people living with HIV/AIDS (e.g. how the co-morbidity of addiction and pain influence the compliance of medication and HIV/AIDS-specific health maintenance, the unique physiological mechanisms underlying addiction-pain co-morbidity among PLWHA using laboratory paradigms).