Steven Branstetter has research interests in nicotine addiction, smoking behaviors, and individual and contextual influences on tobacco use in adults and adolescents.
Assistant Teaching Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Summary Statement
Jeff Brown's teaching in undergraduate, graduate, and professional settings has included integrative and clinical neuroscience, neurophysiology, electrophysiological techniques, and drugs, behavior, and health.
Elizabeth Fenton Susman Professor of Biobehavioral Health
Associate Director, Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Summary Statement
Orfeu Buxton directs the Sleep, Health & Society Collaboratory and is the recipient of the 2025 Pattishall Outstanding Research Achievement Award Lecture.
Mary Campbell manages communications and marketing needs for the College of Health and Human Development, specifically the departments of Biobehavioral Health and Human Development and Family Studies. This includes website, social media, and writing and press coverage.
Sonia Cavigelli conducts interdisciplinary research on the causes and consequences of individual differences in stress- and fear-related behavior and physiology.
Anne-Marie Chang's research involves the inter-relationships of sleep physiology and behavior, circadian rhythms, cardio-metabolic health, cognitive function and genomics.
Michelle provides oversight in the financial operations of BBH by compiling data for analysis and forecasting, reviewing budget amendments, managing labor distribution functions and communicating financial policies and procedures to the unit.
The goal of Eric Claus' research is to identify neural and cognitive mechanisms that support behavior change in substance use disorders. In addition, he uses neuromodulation techniques to modify functioning in relevant circuits in order to r