Evan Daniel Morris PhD

Associate Professor of Diagnostic Radiology, of Biomedical Engineering and of Psychiatry; Co-director for Imaging, Yale PET Center

Departments & Organizations

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Biomedical Ethics

Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Neuroscience

Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program

Diagnostic Radiology: Bioimaging Sciences: Positron Emission Tomography Center, Yale

Psychiatry

Research Interests

kinetic modeling; parameter estimation; parametric imaging; dopamine; reward; drug occupancy; drug abuse; alcoholism; Parkinson's disease

Education

• SB, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983
• Ph.D., Case Western Reserve Univ, 1991

Selected Publications

• E.D. Morris, C.C. Constantinescu, J.M. Sullivan, M.D. Normandin, L.A. Christopher. Noninvasive Visualization of Human Dopamine Dynamics from PET Images. Neuroimage 2010. 51(1):135-4.
• JM. Sullivan, SL. Risacher, MD. Normandin, KK. Yoder, JC. Froehlich, ED. Morris. Imaging of alcohol-induced dopamine release in rats: preliminary findings with [11C]raclopride PET. Synapse. 2011 Sep;65(9):929-37.
• Normandin MD, Schiffer WK, Morris ED. A linear model for estimation of neurotransmitter response profiles from dynamic PET data. Neuroimage. 2012 Feb 1;59(3):2689-99