| Jane B. Acri | Substance Abuse Disorders | | | | |
| Cristina Backman | | | | | Barry J. Hoffer (post-doc) |
| Annabelle Marie Belcher | Addiction, Learning and Memory, Neuroimaging, Resting-State Functional Connectivity, NHP models, law and neuroscience | | 2009 | 2014 | Elliot A. Stein (post-doc) |
| Hassiba Beldjoud | Behavioral Neuroscience,Neurocircuitry of Motivation Section , DREADDs, Stress, ,Intravenous self administraion | | | | |
| Benjamin Berg | Reward Behavior, Electrophysiology | | | | |
| R. Aaron Bola | | | | | |
| Antonello Bonci | Substance abuse | | | | |
| Jonathan P. Britt | Drug Abuse | | | | |
| Diana C. Burk | | | 2013 | 2014 | Yeka Aponte (research assistant) |
| Vicky Chuong | alcohol use disorder, addiction, neuropharmacology | | | | |
| MaryAnn Chutuape | substance abuse | | | | |
| Dale Corbett | Stroke, Stroke Recovery, Stroke Rehabilitation, Neuroplasticity | | 1975 | 1978 | Roy Wise (grad student) |
| Hans S. Crombag | Behavioral Neuroscience | | | | Bruce T. Hope (post-doc), Yavin Shaham (post-doc) |
| Lindsay M De Biase | Neuron-Glial interactions | | 2012 | | Antonello Bonci (post-doc) |
| Elizabeth A. Duncan-Vaidya | motivation and addiction | | 2006 | 2008 | Roy Wise (post-doc) |
| Rebecca V Fallon | Addiction, Behavior, Neurocircuits | | | | |
| T. Chase Francis | Striatal dependent aversive behavior | | 2016 | 2019 | Antonello Bonci (post-doc) |
| Stephanie C. Gantz | G protein-coupled receptors, synaptic transmission, ion channels | | | | |
| Greg Gerhardt | | | | | Barry J. Hoffer (post-doc) |
| Eduardo D. Gigante | Addiction | | | | |
| Sam A. Golden | Neuroscience, Reward and Motivation | | | | Yavin Shaham (research assistant), Bruce T. Hope (research assistant) |
| Frank Scott Hall | Addiction Genetics | | | | |
| Brandon K. Harvey | | | | | Barry J. Hoffer (post-doc) |
| Stephen J. Heishman | | | | | |
| Jennifer A. Hobin | | | | | |
| Barry J. Hoffer | Pharmacology | | | | |
| Bruce T. Hope | Addiction, neuronal ensembles | | | | |
| Satoshi Ikemoto | reward, neurocircuitry, motivation | | | | Roy Wise (collaborator), Roy Wise (post-doc) |
| Anton Ilango | Motivational Circuitry, Neuromodulation of Learning and Decision Making | | | | |
| Thomas C. Jhou | RMTg, motivated behavior, dopamine | | 2008 | 2010 | Satoshi Ikemoto (post-doc) |
| Michelle L. Jobes | Toxicology, Neuroscience Biology | Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Research Branch - Intramural Research Program | 2008 | 2012 | Kenzie L. Preston (post-doc) |
| Konstantin Kaganovsky | | | 2013 | 2015 | Yavin Shaham (research assistant) |
| Louisa F Kane | Clinical psychology, behavioral neuroscience, addiction, translation | | 2017 | 2019 | Bruce T. Hope (research assistant) |
| Jonathan L. Katz | Behavioral Pharmacology | | | | Gerald S. Hecht (collaborator) |
| Robin J. Keeley | | | | | |
| Andrew J. Kesner | Neurocircuitry of motivation, reward, aversion, addiction | | | | |
| Eugene A. Kiyatkin | Drugs of abuse: peripheral actions and cardiovascular effects | | | | |
| Bethea Annie Kleykamp | | | | | Stephen J. Heishman (post-doc) |
| Lauren Komer | | Behavioral Neuroscience | 2016 | 2018 | Bruce T. Hope (research assistant) |
| William J. Kowalczyk | | | | | |
| Eisuke Koya | medial prefrontal cortex, nucleus accumbens, neuronal ensembles, drug addiction, slice elctrophysiology | | 2008 | 2012 | Bruce T. Hope (post-doc), Yavin Shaham (post-doc), Carl R. Lupica (post-doc) |
| Brenton T Laing | Neuroscience, metabolism, electrophysiology, optogenetics | | | | |
| Xuan A. Li | Cocaine addiction, AMPA receptors, BDNF | | 2012 | | Yavin Shaham (post-doc) |
| Carl R. Lupica | Dopamine, cannabinoids, electrophysiology | | | | |
| Matthew Domenic Lycas | | | 2014 | 2015 | Carl R. Lupica (research assistant) |
| Rajtarun Madangopal | | Neuronal Ensembles of Addiction | 2014 | | Bruce T. Hope (post-doc) |
| Brandi J. Mattson | Addiction, reward, decision-making, microcircuits | | 2002 | 2005 | Bruce T. Hope (post-doc), Carl R. Lupica (post-doc) |
| Ross A. McDevitt | Behavioral neuroscience, serotonin | | 2011 | | Antonello Bonci (post-doc) |
| Maddalena Mereu | Molecular Targets and Medication Discovery Branch | | | | |
| Marisela Morales | | | | | |
| Stephanie Myal | Somatosensation, motivated behaviors | | 2013 | 2013 | Roy Wise (research scientist), Eugene A. Kiyatkin (research scientist), Ken Taro Wakabayashi (research scientist), Stephan Steidl (research scientist), Bin Wang (research scientist), Zhi-Bing You (research scientist) |
| Kenichiro Negishi | systems neuroscience | | | | |
| Céline Nicolas | Drug addiction, relapse, sex differences, insular cortex circuits | | | | |
| Murat Oz | | | | | |
| Vani Pariyadath | Time perception, Drug addiction | | | | |
| Charles L. Pickens | Addiction, Fear, Appetitive Learning | | 2007 | | Yavin Shaham (post-doc) |
| Marco Pignatelli | | | | | Antonello Bonci (post-doc) |
| Oksana O. Polesskaya | HIV, drug abuse | | 1999 | 2005 | George R. Uhl (research assistant), Boris P. Sokolov (grad student) |
| Kenzie L. Preston | | | | | |
| David J. Reiner | neuropharmacology, ingestive behavior, motivated behaviors, drug addiction | Behavioral Neuroscience | 2017 | 2012 | Brandon K. Harvey (research assistant), Yavin Shaham (post-doc) |
| Kenner C. Rice | medicinal chemistry, drugs of abuse | | | | |
| Brian F. Sadacca | Learning, Reward, Taste | | 2012 | | Geoffrey Schoenbaum (post-doc) |
| Elena Schifirnet | Affective neuroscience, emotion, pain, reward, ventral tegmental area | | | | |
| Yavin Shaham | | | | | |
| Shoichi Shimada | transporter/channel | | | | George R. Uhl (post-doc) |
| Toni Shippenberg | Drug addiction | | | | |
| Jingwei Song | Neuroscience; Chemogenetics; Gene Therapy | | 2016 | | Satoshi Ikemoto (research assistant) |
| Jennifer Stark | | Neuroimaging Research Branch | 2009 | 2013 | Elliot A. Stein (post-doc) |
| Elliot A. Stein | Addiction, Neuroimaging | | | | |
| Haley E. Stepp | Neuroimaging | | 2011 | 2013 | Annabelle Marie Belcher (research assistant) |
| Matthew T. Sutherland | Drug Addiction, neuroimaging, nicotine | | 2007 | 2012 | Elliot A. Stein (post-doc) |
| Nobuyoshi Suto | Neuroscience, Addiction Biology | | | | Roy Wise (post-doc) |
| Aaron D Z Tan | Reward circuitry, mood disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders | | 2014 | 2016 | Satoshi Ikemoto (research assistant) |
| Hugo Tejeda | | | 2013 | | Toni Shippenberg (grad student), Antonello Bonci (post-doc) |
| George R. Uhl | Human genetics, Drug abuse | | | | |
| Nora Volkow | dopamine, addiction, PET | | | | |
| Ken Taro Wakabayashi | Cocaine, Self Administration, Immunohistochemistry, Reinstatement, Amperometry | | | | Anna Nirukshi Arulampalam (post-doc) |
| Bin Wang | Cocaine actions, motivated behaviors | | | | |
| David Albert White | | | | | |
| Andrew M. Wikenheiser | | | | | |
| Derek S. Wilkinson | | | | | Jonathan L. Katz (post-doc) |
| Roy Wise | drug addiction | | | | Donald Olding Hebb (grad student) |
| Amina S. Woods | lipid and protein mass spectroscopy | | 2011 | 2012 | Stephanie Myal (collaborator) |
| Zhi-Bing You | in vivo microdialysis, endocrine processes related to drug abuse | | | | |
| Agustin Zapata | Addiction | | | | |
| Michelle Zhang | | | | | |
| Su Zhang | | | | | |
| Jingfeng Zhou | associative learning and decision making | | | | |