CURRICULUM VITAE
David S. Leland
UCSD
Psychiatry, 0985
9500
Gilman Drive
La
Jolla, CA 92093-0985
(858)
534-9441
dleland@ucsd.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego (2004)
B.A.
Cognitive Science and Creative Writing, Oberlin College
(1996)
DISSERTATION
Title:
Effects of Motivationally Salient Cues on Visual Spatial Attention:
Behavior and Electrophysiology
Committee: Drs.
Jaime Pineda (chair), Steven Hillyard, Marta Kutas, Sandra Brown, Andrea Chiba, and Steven Grant
RESEARCH
EXPERIENCE
April 2004 - present: Postdoctoral Researcher; Dr. Martin
Paulus; UCSD Dept. of Psychiatry
Main
project involves stimulant-exposed (but not stimulant-dependent) young adults,
who perform. decision-making and inhibition tasks during fMRI (functional
magnetic resonance imaging) and a battery of cognitive, personality, and symptom
assessments. Participants are
compared with non-users and followed up to determine whether measured variables
predict future dependence. Duties include project oversight, fMRI scanner
operation; subject recruitment, DSM-IV clinical interviewing, cognitive testing,
behavioral and imaging data analysis, manuscript preparation and submission,
training and overseeing staff and undergraduates involved in the projects. Also involved in a
similar project with in-treatment stimulant-dependent veterans and prediction of
relapse.
July 1996 - March 2004: Predoctoral
Researcher; Dr. Jaime Pineda; UCSD Dept. of Cognitive
Science
Dissertation work focused on influence of food and
smoking incentive motivation on selective attention, using behavior and ERP
(event-related potential) measures.
Duties included experimental design, setting up and testing out new EEG
equipment, subject recruitment, preparing and running subjects, collecting and
analyzing data, poster/manuscript preparation and submission, training and
overseeing undergraduates assisting with various projects in the
lab.
June 1997 - August 1997: Research Intern; Dr. Steven Grant; NIDA
Brain Imaging Section
Summer internship at intramural research program of
National Institute on Drug Abuse. Duties
included pilot testing tasks, data analysis, poster creation and presentation,
learning PET (positron emission tomography) methodology, presenting to staff on
cognitive neuroscience approaches to addiction research.
RESEARCH
EXPERIENCE, CONTINUED
January 1997 - March 1997: Predoctoral
Research Assistant; Dr. George Koob and Dr. John
Walker; The Scripps Research
Institute
Quarter-long lab rotation working on operant
conditioning study of morphine self-administration in rats. Duties
included handling rats, running them on tasks and collecting related data,
learning techniques in animal work.
September 1995 - May 1996: Undergraduate Researcher; Dr. Patricia
deWinstanley; Oberlin College Dept. of
Psychology
Year-long independent behavioral research project on
effects of smoking-related stimuli on selective attention in smokers (precursor
to dissertation work).
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE (all in
UCSD Dept. of Cognitive Science)
COGS
174: Drugs: Brain, Mind, and
Culture
Instructor
(Summer 2002, Summer 2001, Spring 2001)
Co-instructor
with Jaime Pineda (Winter 2000, Summer 1999)
Guest
Lectures (Fall 2005)
Teaching
Assistant for Jaime Pineda (Fall 2003, Winter 1998, Fall
1998)
Curriculum development, website design, lecture
preparation and delivery, running discussion sections on current related news
and topics, preparing and grading exams, evaluating papers, coaching on and
evaluating group presentations by students.
COGS
101B: Experimental Approaches to
Cognition
Teaching
Assistant for Christine Johnson (Winter 1997)
Assistance in exam development, grading, running
discussion sections, instructing students on scientific writing, evaluating lab
reports.
COGS
101A: Sensation and
Perception
Teaching
Assistant for Christine Johnson (Fall 2001)
Assistance in exam development, grading, running
hands-on lab sections demonstrating course principles, lab section curriculum
development, evaluating lab reports.
COGS
91: SCANS Presents (topics in
cognitive science presented by instructors and guest
lecturers)
Co-instructor
with Brendan Allison (Winter 2001)
Curriculum development, lecture preparation and
delivery, recruiting and coordinating guest lecturers, evaluating student
reports on lectures.
COGS
17: Neurobiology of
Cognition
Teaching
Assistant for Jaime Pineda (Spring 2002)
Exam development and grading, coordinating team of
undergraduate teaching assistants.
HONORS AND
AWARDS
ź
Biological
Psychiatry and Neuroscience Fellowship, UCSD Psychiatry
(2005-2007)
ź
National Research
Service Award (F31), NIDA, NIH (2002-2003)
ź
Intramural Research
Training Award, NIDA, NIH (1997)
ź
Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, UCSD
(1996-1998)
ź
Stetson-Heiser Prize in Experimental Psychology, Oberlin College
(1996)
ź
Phi Beta Kappa
Honor Society, Oberlin College (1996)
ź
Sigma Xi Scientific
Honor Society, Oberlin College (1996)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE,
SERVICE, AND MEMBERSHIPS
ź
WIRED Magazine’s
NextFest, Brain-Computer Interface Booth Exhibitor
(June 24-27, 2005)
ź
UCSD Graduate
Student Association, Council Representative (for Cognitive Science Department)
(2002-2003 academic year)
ź
UCSD Academic
Dishonesty Hearing Board (2002-2003 academic year)
ź
UCSD Academic
Freedom Committee (2002-2003 academic year)
ź
UCSD Cognitive
Science Department Graduate Admissions Committee (2000-2001 academic
year)
ź
Cognitive
Neuroscience Society, Member (1996-present)
ź
Society for
Neuroscience, Member (1996-present)
PAPERS
·
Leland DS,
Arce E, Feinstein JS,
Paulus MP (in press). Young adult stimulant users' increased striatal activation
during uncertainty is related to impulsivity. Neuroimage.
·
Arce E, Leland DS,
Miller DA, Simmons AN, Winternheimer KC, Paulus MP (in
press and available online). Individuals with schizophrenia present hypo- and
hyperactivation during implicit cueing in an
inhibitory task. Neuroimage.
·
Leland DS, Pineda
JA. (2006). Effects of food-related stimuli on visual spatial attention in
fasting and nonfasting normal subjects: behavior and
electrophysiology. Clinical
Neurophysiology. 117 (1), 67-84.
·
Paulus MP,
Feinstein JS, Leland D, Simmons AN. (2005). Superior temporal gyrus and insula
provide response and outcome-dependent information during assessment and action
selection in a decision-making situation. Neuroimage. 25,
607-615.
·
Leland DS and
Paulus MP (2005). Increased
risk-taking decision-making but not altered response to punishment in stimulant
using young adults. Drug and Alcohol
Dependence. 78 (1), 83-90.
·
Wittmann M,
Leland DS, Paulus MP (in review). Time and decision-making: differential
contribution of the insular cortex and the striatum during a delay discounting
task.
·
Leland DS, Arce E, Miller DA, Paulus MP (in preparation). Anterior
cingulate activation associated with benefit of implicit cueing in stimulant
dependent individuals performing an inhibitory
task.
CONFERENCE POSTERS AND
PRESENTATIONS
·
Wittmann M,
Leland DS, Paulus MP. “The neurobiology of inter-temporal reward selection: fMRI
activation of insular cortex and striaturn during
delay discounting.” Poster at 2006 Biological Psychiatry
meeting.
CONFERENCE POSTERS AND
PRESENTATIONS, CONTINUED
·
Leland DS, Arce E, Miller DA, Paulus MP. “Stimulant-dependent
individuals in treatment exhibit cingulate hyperactivity while performing a
GO-NOGO task with predictive cueing.” Poster at 2006 Cognitive Neuroscience
Society meeting.
·
Leland DS, Arce E, Paulus MP. “Differential fMRI activation in
stimulant users and stimulant-naďve young adults during uncertain
decision-making.” Poster at 2005 Cognitive Neuroscience Society
meeting.
·
Arce E,
Leland DS, Miller DA, Winternheimer KC, Paulus MP.
“Schizophrenia patients fail to process prediction cues during an inhibitory
task.” Poster at 2005 International Congress on Schizophrenia
Research
·
Leland DS, Paulus
MP “Increased risk-taking decision-making but not altered response to punishment
in stimulant using young adults.” Poster at 2004 Society for Neuroscience
meeting.
·
Leland DS, Pineda
JA. “Effects of Food and Smoking Words on Visual Spatial Attention.” Poster at
2004 Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting..
·
Leland DS, Pineda
JA. “Food Words Bias Visual Spatial Attention After an
Overnight Fast: Evidence from Behavior and ERPs.”
Poster at 2003 Society for Neuroscience meeting.
·
Leland DS, Pineda
JA. “Food Cue Effects on Sensory and Cognitive Processing of Targets.” Poster at
2003 Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting..
·
Leland DS, Pineda
JA. “Food Cue Effects on P3 and Target P1, N1, and RT in Fasting Subjects.”
Poster at 2002 Society for Neuroscience meeting.
·
Leland DS. “Biased
Attention as a Neurocognitive Mechanism for
Reinforcement and Addiction.” Invited poster at 2002 NIDA
Frontiers in Addiction Research satellite meeting.
·
Leland DS, Pineda
JA. “Food Cue Effects on ERPs and Target Reaction
Times in Fasting Subjects.” Poster at 2002 Cognitive Neuroscience Society
meeting and 2001 Society for Neuroscience meeting.
·
Leland DS,
Richardson JS, Vankov A, Grant SJ, Pineda JA. “P300
and the Iowa Gambling Task: Neural
Basis of Decision-making and Addiction.” Invited presentation at
1999 Cognitive Neuroscience Society meeting.
·
Leland DS,
Richardson JS, Vankov A, Grant SJ, Pineda JA.
“Decision-making and Associated ERPs in the Iowa
Gambling Task.” Poster at 1998 Society for Neuroscience
meeting.
·
Leland DS, Grant
SJ. “Relationship Between Questionnaire-Based and
Task-Based Assessment of Risky Behavior in Substance Abusers.” Poster at 1997
NIH Summer Research Program Poster Day.
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
·
Neurobiology of
cognitive processes
·
Attention and
decision-making
·
Motivation and
affect
·
Neuropsychopharmacology and drug dependence
·
Brain imaging (EEG, MEG, PET,
fMRI)
Dr. Martin Paulus,
Professor-in-Residence
UCSD Department of
Psychiatry
9500 Gilman
Drive
La Jolla CA
92093-0985
(858)
534-9444
mpaulus@ucsd.edu
Dr. Jaime Pineda, Associate
Professor
UCSD Department of Cognitive
Science, 0515
9500 Gilman
Drive
La Jolla, CA
92093-0515
(858)
534-9754
Dr. Steven Hillyard, Professor
UCSD Department of
Neuroscience, 0608
9500 Gilman
Drive
La Jolla, CA
92093-0608
(858)
534-2385
Dr. Christine Johnson,
Lecturer
UCSD Department of Cognitive
Science, 0515
9500 Gilman
Drive
La Jolla, CA
92093-0515
(858)
534-9854
johnson@cogsci.ucsd.edu
Dr. Steven Grant,
Chief
Clinical Neuroscience Branch,
DCNDBT
National Institute on Drug
Abuse
6001 Executive Blvd, Room
4-4235
Bethesda, MD 20892
(301)
443-8869
Dr. Patricia deWinstanley, Associate Professor
Oberlin College Department of
Psychology
213 Severance Laboratory
Oberlin, Ohio
44074-1086
(440)
775-8410
patty.dewinstanley@oberlin.edu