JANINE FLORY

Title	Associate Professor
Area	Clinical Psychology
Ph.D.	University of Kansas, 1992
Office	D-312 Science Building
E-mail	janine.flory@qc.cuny.edu
Office Phone	718-997-3465

Professional Activities:

Society Memberships:
    Association for Psychological Science
    American Psychological Association
    Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology
    American Psychopathological Association
    American Psychosomatic Society


Editorial Boards:
   Psychosomatic Medicine

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Research Description:

My research investigates Impulsiveness, a quantitative vulnerability trait for aggression, suicide, and some personality disorders. I consider Impulsiveness to be a multidimensional trait, encompassing novelty or reward seeking and (lack of) constraint and take the “endophenotype” approach in my research, using dimensional self-report scales and interviews, behavioral and neurocognitive measures, neurobiology, and molecular genetics.  Results from this research will aid in understanding the relationship between normal and abnormal personality. An emerging and related research interest concerns the association of Impulsiveness with tobacco use, addiction and cessation.

Selected Publications:

    Flory, J. D., Manuck, S. B., Perel, J. M., & Muldoon, M. F. (2004). A comparison of d,l-fenfluramine and citalopram challenges in healthy adults. Psychopharmacology, 174, 376-380.

    Flory, J. D., Manuck, S. B., Matthews, K. A., & Muldoon, M. F. (2004). CNS serotonergic function is associated with daily ratings of positive mood. Psychiatry Research, 29, 11-19.

    Brown, S. A., Manuck, S. B., Flory, J. D., & Hariri, A. R. (2006). Neural basis of individual differences in impulsivity: Contributions of corticolimbic circuits for behavioral arousal and control. Emotion, 6, 239-245.

    Flory, J.D., Harvey, P.D., Mitropoulou, V., New, A. S., Silverman, J.M., Siever, L.J., & Manuck, S.B. (2006). Dispositional impulsivity in normal and abnormal samples. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 40, 438-447.

    Hariri, A., R., Brown, S. A., Williamson, D. E., Flory, J. D., de Wit H., & Manuck, S. B. (2006). Preference for immediate over delayed rewards is associated with magnitude of ventral striatal activity. Journal of Neuroscience, 26, 13213-13217.

    de Wit, H., Flory, J. D., Acheson, A., McCloskey, M., & Manuck, S. B. (2007). IQ and nonplanning impulsivity are associated independently with delay discounting in middle-aged adults. Personality and Individual Differences, 42, 111-121.

    Flory, J. D., Newcorn, J. H., Miller, C., Harty, S., & Halperin J. M. (2007). Serotonergic function in children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder: Relationship to later antisocial personality disorder. British Journal of Psychiatry, 190, 410-414.

    Flory, J.D., Xu, K, New, A. S., Finch, T., Goldman, D., & Siever, L.J. (2007). Irritable assault and variation in the COMT gene. Psychiatric Genetics, 17, 344-346.

    Sweitzer, M. M., Donny, E., C., Dierker, L. C., Flory, J. D., & Manuck, S. B. (in press). Delay discounting and smoking: Association with the Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence but not cigarettes smoked per day. Nicotine and Tobacco Research.