Principal Investigator
Professor, Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology, College of Medicine, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Chief, Division of Addiction Research; Director, Neurocognitive Laboratory, Department of Psychiatry, UF College of Medicine
Director, Center for Addiction Research and Education (CARE)

Dr. Nixon’s clinical research program focuses on the neurobehavioral concomitants of substance use and abuse using both behavioral and neurophysiological methods. She and her team are particularly interested in testing conceptual models that might inform treatment and intervention efforts and in exploring issues of sex, age and race/ethnicity.