Matthew Johnson, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Education:
B.S.: Eastern Oregon University (Oregon) (1999)
Ph.D.: University of Vermont (Vermont) (2004)
Expertise: Addiction Medicine, Drug Abuse Research, Drug Dependence
Research Interests: Human behavior change, especially in the context of addiction recovery; Behavioral economics of drug consumption and addiction; Delay discounting (the devaluation of future consequences) and addiction; Delay discounting and HIV sexual risk behavior; Drug administration studies in humans to characterize abuse liability, reinforcing effects, effects on decision making, and subjective effects; Therapeutic effects of the psychedelic compound psilocybin in the treatment of addiction, and in the treatment of cancer-related anxiety and depression; Psychopharmacology of psilocybin, salvinorin A, and other psychedelics/hallucinogens