Areas of Expertise
Clinical psychology.
Expert Bio
Melissa Cyders is an associate professor of psychology at IUPUI in the clinical psychology graduate program. Her research concerns how impulsivity and its neurocognitive underpinnings impart risk for a wide range of clinical problems and disorders.
Cyders is most well known for her contributions to the UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Model and her work with integrating emotions and impulsive action. She uses a wide range of methods and procedures in her research, from brain imaging to laboratory-based oral and intravenous alcohol administration to longitudinal survey designs. Her current work focuses on long-term opioid use disorder recovery.
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