Dr. Chella Kamarajan

Dr. Kamarajan is a clinical- and neuro-psychologist and a neuroscientist by education and training, and he has clinical and/or research expertise in multiple domains, viz., brain electrophysiology, neuropsychology, neuroimaging, computational programming, signal/image processing and statistics, assessments and therapeutics in addiction and mental disorders. He has been a co-investigator in NIH sponsored research projects. Dr. Kamarajan has published several important research and review papers on neurophysiological abnormalities in AUD and its risks. He has been an active reviewer and on the editorial boards of several journals. He has evaluated several PhD dissertations as an expert examiner in topics related to neurophysiology, neuropsychology, and psychopathology research. Dr. Kamarajan has been involved with teaching, training, and mentoring medical and graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and psychiatry residents in SUNY DHSU. He is also the course director of an elective “Neurophysiology of Alcohol and Drug Addiction” for the final year medical students. In addition to ERP and ERO measures during cognitive tasks, he has been focusing on other specific measures related to phase synchrony (e.g., phase-locking index, inter-trial phase coherence, and inter-site phase synchrony) and network properties (Granger causality and Graph theory) by examining various brain connectivity methods implemented using both sensor space and source space (e.g., MNE, eLORETA).