Dara Ghahremani, Ph.D.
Titles
Faculty, UCLA Center for Cannabis and Cannabinoids
Associate Researcher, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
Contact Information
Email
darag@ucla.edu Biography
Dr. Dara G. Ghahremani is Research Faculty in the Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences. He received his PhD in Psychology with specialization in Neuroscience from Stanford University and was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Russell Poldrack at UCLA.
Publications
A selected list of publications:
Faulkner Paul, Petersen Nicole, Ghahremani Dara G, Cox Chelsea M, Tyndale Rachel F, Hellemann Gerhard S, London Edythe D
Sex differences in tobacco withdrawal and responses to smoking
reduced-nicotine cigarettes in young smokers
Psychopharmacology,
2017;
1-8.
Courtney Kelly E, Ghahremani Dara G, Ray Lara A
The Effects of Pharmacological Opioid Blockade on Neural Measures of
Drug Cue-Reactivity in Humans
Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology,
2016; 41(12):
2872-2881.
Okita Kyoji, Ghahremani Dara G, Payer Doris E, Robertson Chelsea L, Mandelkern Mark A, London Edythe D
Relationship of Alexithymia Ratings to Dopamine D2-type Receptors in
Anterior Cingulate and Insula of Healthy Control Subjects but Not
Methamphetamine-Dependent Individuals
The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology,
2016; 19(5):
891-8.
Okita Kyoji, Ghahremani Dara G, Payer Doris E, Robertson Chelsea L, Dean Andy C, Mandelkern Mark A, London Edythe D
Emotion dysregulation and amygdala dopamine D2-type receptor
availability in methamphetamine users
Drug and alcohol dependence,
2016; 161(5):
163-70.
Dean Andy C, Kohno Milky, Morales Angelica M, Ghahremani Dara G, London Edythe D
Denial in methamphetamine users: Associations with cognition and
functional connectivity in brain
Drug and alcohol dependence,
2015; 151(5):
84-91.
Robertson Chelsea L, Ishibashi Kenji, Mandelkern Mark A, Brown Amira K, Ghahremani Dara G, Sabb Fred, Bilder Robert, Cannon Tyrone, Borg Jacqueline, London Edythe D
Striatal D1- and D2-type dopamine receptors are linked to motor
response inhibition in human subjects
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience,
2015; 35(15):
5990-7.
Courtney Kelly E, Ghahremani Dara G, Ray Lara A
The effect of alcohol priming on neural markers of alcohol
cue-reactivity
The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse,
2015; 41(4):
300-8.
Kohno Milky, Ghahremani Dara G, Morales Angelica M, Robertson Chelsea L, Ishibashi Kenji, Morgan Andrew T, Mandelkern Mark A, London Edythe D
Risk-taking behavior: dopamine D2/D3 receptors, feedback, and
frontolimbic activity
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991),
2015; 25(1):
236-45.
Ray Lara A, Courtney Kelly E, Ghahremani Dara G, Miotto Karen, Brody Arthur, London Edythe D
Varenicline, naltrexone, and their combination for heavy-drinking
smokers: preliminary neuroimaging findings
The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse,
2015; 41(1):
35-44.
Courtney Kelly E, Ghahremani Dara G, London Edythe D, Ray Lara A
The association between cue-reactivity in the precuneus and level of
dependence on nicotine and alcohol
Drug and alcohol dependence,
2014; 141(19):
21-6.
Morales Angelica M, Ghahremani Dara, Kohno Milky, Hellemann Gerhard S, London Edythe D
Cigarette exposure, dependence, and craving are related to insula
thickness in young adult smokers
Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology,
2014; 39(8):
1816-22.
Kohno Milky, Morales Angelica M, Ghahremani Dara G, Hellemann Gerhard, London Edythe D
Risky decision making, prefrontal cortex, and mesocorticolimbic
functional connectivity in methamphetamine dependence
JAMA psychiatry,
2014; 71(7):
812-20.
London Edythe D, Ghahremani Dara G
Large-scale brain network coupling as a potential neural metric for
nicotine abstinence effects on craving and cognitive function
JAMA psychiatry,
2014; 71(5):
491-2.
Ghahremani Dara G, Oh Eugene Y, Dean Andrew C, Mouzakis Kristina, Wilson Kristen D, London Edythe D
Effects of the Youth Empowerment Seminar on Impulsive Behavior inÂ
Adolescents
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine,
2013; 53(1):
139-41.
Courtney Kelly E, Ghahremani Dara G, Ray Lara A
Fronto-striatal functional connectivity during response inhibition in
alcohol dependence
Addiction biology,
2013; 18(3):
593-604.
Brown Amira K, Mandelkern Mark A, Farahi Judah, Robertson Chelsea, Ghahremani Dara G, Sumerel Brittany, Moallem Nathasha, London Edythe D
Sex differences in striatal dopamine D2/D3 receptor availability in
smokers and non-smokers
The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology / official scientific journal of the Collegium Internationale Neuropsychopharmacologicum (CINP),
2012; 15(7):
989-94.
Ghahremani Dara G, Lee Buyean, Robertson Chelsea L, Tabibnia Golnaz, Morgan Andrew T, De Shetler Natalie, Brown Amira K, Monterosso John R, Aron Adam R, Mandelkern Mark A, Poldrack Russell A, London Edythe D
Striatal dopamine Dâ/Dâ receptors mediate response inhibition and
related activity in frontostriatal neural circuitry in humans
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience,
2012; 32(21):
7316-24.
Nestor Liam J, Ghahremani Dara G, Monterosso John, London Edythe D
Prefrontal hypoactivation during cognitive control in early abstinent
methamphetamine-dependent subjects
Psychiatry research,
2011; 194(3):
287-95.
Ghahremani Dara G, Tabibnia Golnaz, Monterosso John, Hellemann Gerhard, Poldrack Russell A, London Edythe D
Effect of modafinil on learning and task-related brain activity in
methamphetamine-dependent and healthy individuals
Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology,
2011; 36(5):
950-9.
Scott-Van Zeeland Ashley A, Abrahams Brett S, Alvarez-Retuerto Ana I, Sonnenblick Lisa I, Rudie Jeffrey D, Ghahremani Dara, Mumford Jeanette A, Poldrack Russell A, Dapretto Mirella, Geschwind Daniel H, Bookheimer Susan Y
Altered functional connectivity in frontal lobe circuits is associated
with variation in the autism risk gene CNTNAP2
Science translational medicine,
2010; 2(56):
56ra80.
Scott-Van Zeeland Ashley A, Dapretto Mirella, Ghahremani Dara G, Poldrack Russell A, Bookheimer Susan Y
Reward processing in autism
Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research,
2010; 3(2):
53-67.
Ghahremani Dara G, Monterosso John, Jentsch J David, Bilder Robert M, Poldrack Russell A
Neural Components Underlying Behavioral Flexibility in Human Reversal
Learning
Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991),
2009;
.
Xue Gui, Ghahremani Dara G, Poldrack Russell A
Neural substrates for reversing stimulus-outcome and stimulus-response
associations
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience,
2008; 28(44):
11196-204.
Gui Xue, Dara G. Ghahremani, and Russell A. Poldrack
Neural Substrates for Reversing Stimulus-Outcome and Stimulus-Response Associations,
Journal of Neuroscience,
2008; 28 :
11196-11204.
Schwartzman, Dougherty, Lee, Ghahremani, Taylor
Empirical null and false discovery rate analysis in neuroimaging
NeuroImage,
2008;
.
Golarai Golijeh, Ghahremani Dara G, Whitfield-Gabrieli S, Reiss Allan, Eberhardt Jennifer L, Gabrieli John D E, Grill-Spector Kalanit
Differential development of high-level visual cortex correlates with category-specific recognition memory
Nature neuroscience,
2007; 10(4):
512-22.
Bergerbest Dafna, Ghahremani Dara G, Gabrieli John D E
Neural correlates of auditory repetition priming: reduced fMRI activation in the auditory cortex
Journal of cognitive neuroscience,
2007; 16(6):
966-77.
Anderson A K, Christoff K, Stappen I, Panitz D, Ghahremani D G, Glover G, Gabrieli J D E, Sobel N
Dissociated neural representations of intensity and valence in human olfaction
Nature neuroscience,
2003; 6(2):
196-202.
Makeig S, Jung T P, Bell A J, Ghahremani D, Sejnowski T J
Blind separation of auditory event-related brain responses into independent components
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,
1997; 94(20):
10979-84.