Evonne Charboneau, M.D., J.D.
Research Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
evonne.j.charboneau@vanderbilt.edu
Dr. Evonne Charboneau joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2009 as a member of the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Program and the Division of Addiction Psychiatry. She studies the neural basis of addictive disorders using functional MRI and genetic methodologies. She is especially interested in reward circuitry and the neural mechanisms underlying childhood obesity.
Education
M.D., Vanderbilt University
J.D., Columbia University
M. Sci. in Clinical Investigation, Vanderbilt University
B.S., University of Washington (Molecular Biology)
Postgraduate Training
National Institute of Health Research Fellowship, Vanderbilt University
Research Interest
Childhood obesity; reward circuitry; addiction
Neuroimaging; genetics
Representative publications
1. Castellanos-Hon E, E Charboneau, K Mogg, B Bradley, RL Cowan. Obese human adults have increased visual attentional salience for food cues. International Journal of Obesity, (In press).
2. Karageorgiou, J, MS Dietrich, EJ Charboneau, ND Woodward, JU Blackford, RM Salomon, RL Cowan. Prior MDMA (Ecstasy) use is associated with increased basal ganglia-thalamocortical circuit activation during motor task performance in humans: an fMRI study. NeuroImage 46(3): 817-26, 2009.
3. Key, APF, E Charboneau, RL Cowan. Food Perception in Adults: Neuroimaging Findings. International Handbook of Behavior, Diet and Nutrition, VR Preedy, C Martin and RR Watson (eds.), Springer (In press).
4. van Brabant, AJ, CD Buchanan, E Charboneau, WL Fangman, and BJ Brewer. “An Origin-Deficient Yeast Artificial Chromosome Triggers a Cell Cycle Checkpoint.” Molecular Cell, 7: 705-713, 2001.
