Position
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine
Contacts
- Phone: 501-526-8345
- Email: GAJames@uams.edu
Research Experience
G. Andrew James, Ph.D. received bachelor degrees in chemistry and applied psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His graduate studies introduced him to functional neuroimaging, which perfectly fit his dual interests in analytical spectroscopy and human cognition. He received his doctorate in Neuroscience from the University of Florida, where he used functional MRI to model age-related changes in networks governing motor learning. In 2006, he accepted a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Xiaoping Hu of Emory University, where he pursued a variety of methodologically challenging neuroimaging projects such as taste perception of artificial sweeteners, motor network reorganization following stroke, and modeling individual differences in depressed patients’ emotion-regulating networks. In 2009, James joined the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. As an assistant professor in the Brain Imaging Research Center, he is establishing the Cognitive Connectome to explore how the brain’s neural networks encode individual variability in personality and cognition.
Research Interests
Cisler JM, Dunsmoor JE, Privratsky AA, James GA. Decoding neural reactivation
of threat during fear learning, extinction, and recall in a randomized clinical
trial of L-DOPA among women with PTSD. Psychol Med. 2023 Oct 9:1-11. doi:
10.1017/S0033291723002891. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37807886.
Thompson RG Jr, Bollinger M, Mancino MJ, Hasin D, Han X, Bush KA, Kilts CD,
James GA. Smartphone intervention to optimize medication-assisted treatment outcomes for opioid use disorder: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2023 Apr 4;24(1):255. doi: 10.1186/s13063-023-07213-3. PMID: 37016394; PMCID: PMC10071730.
Thompson RG Jr, Bollinger M, Mancino M, Hasin D, Han X, Bush KA, Kilts CD,
James GA. Smartphone intervention to optimize medication assisted treatment outcomes for opioid use disorder: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Res Sq [Preprint]. 2023 Feb 15:rs.3.rs-2511936. doi: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2511936/v1. Update in: Trials. 2023 Apr 4;24(1):255. PMID:
36824884; PMCID: PMC9949224.
Bush KA, James GA, Privratsky AA, Fialkowski KP, Kilts CD. Action-value
processing underlies the role of the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex in
performance monitoring during self-regulation of affect. PLoS One. 2022 Aug
30;17(8):e0273376. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0273376. PMID: 36040991; PMCID: PMC9426889.
Pike AR, James GA, Drew PD, Archer RL. Neuroimaging predictors of
longitudinal disability and cognition outcomes in multiple sclerosis patients: A
systematic review and meta-analysis. Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2022
Jan;57:103452. doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2021.103452. Epub 2021 Dec 7. PMID:
34933251.
Letkiewicz AM, Cochran AL, Privratsky AA, James GA, Cisler JM. Value
estimation and latent-state update-related neural activity during fear
conditioning predict posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity. Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci. 2022 Feb;22(1):199-213. doi: 10.3758/s13415-021-00943-4. Epub 2021 Aug 26. PMID: 34448127; PMCID: PMC8792199.
Carter G, Govindan RB, Brown G, Heimann C, Hayes H, Thostenson JC, Dornhoffer J, Brozoski T, Kimbrell TA, Hayar A, Shihabuddin B, James GA, Garcia-Rill E, Padala PR, Mennemeier M. Change in EEG Activity is Associated with a Decrease in Tinnitus Awareness after rTMS. Front Neurol Neurosci Res. 2021;2:100010. Epub 2021 May 17. PMID: 34263262; PMCID: PMC8277104.
Ahrenholtz R, Hiser J, Ross MC, Privratsky A, Sartin-Tarm A, James GA, Cisler
JM. Unique neurocircuitry activation profiles during fear conditioning and
extinction among women with posttraumatic stress disorder. J Psychiatr Res. 2021 Sep;141:257-266. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.07.007. Epub 2021 Jul 6. PMID: 34260994.
Cisler JM, Privratsky AA, Sartin-Tarm A, Sellnow K, Ross M, Weaver S, Hahn E,
Herringa RJ, James GA, Kilts CD. L-DOPA and consolidation of fear extinction
learning among women with posttraumatic stress disorder. Transl Psychiatry. 2020 Aug 15;10(1):287. doi: 10.1038/s41398-020-00975-3. PMID: 32801342; PMCID: PMC7429959.
Wilson KA, James GA, Kilts CD, Bush KA. Combining Physiological and
Neuroimaging Measures to Predict Affect Processing Induced by Affectively Valent Image Stimuli. Sci Rep. 2020 Jun 9;10(1):9298. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-66109-3. PMID: 32518277; PMCID: PMC7283349.
Padala PR, Padala KP, Samant RS, James GA. Improvement of neuronal integrity
with methylphenidate treatment for apathy in Alzheimer’s disease. Int Psychogeriatr. 2020 Apr;32(4):539-540. doi: 10.1017/S1041610220000095. Epub 2020 Feb 5. PMID: 32019622.