Michael C.ÌýStallings

  • Research Professor
  • INSTITUTE FOR BEHAVIORAL GENETICS
  • PSYCHOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE
Address

Institute for Behavioral Genetics
University of Colorado Boulder
447 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0447

Research Interests:

Individual differences in liability to substance abuse and related psychopathology. Principal investigator of the family study component of our Drug Abuse Research Center.

Active Grants:

  • NIDA R01 DA053693 (MPIs: Hopfer, Stallings, Wall) 8/15/2022 - 5/31/2027. The project proposes to identify genetic and environmental risk factors underlying the progression of early-onset substance use and antisocial behavior, and identify factors that contribute to the persistence of these behaviors into adulthood. Role: MPI
  • NIDA R01 DA035804 (Stallings) 2022 - 2027 Understanding genetic and environmental contributions to the progression and desistance of early-onset substance use and antisocial behavior. MPIs: Christian Hopfer, Michael Stallings, and Tamara Wall
  • NIA R01 AG046938-06 (Reynolds). 2020 - 2025 Colorado Adoption/Twin Study of Lifespan Behavioral Development and Cognitive Aging (CATSLife2), Michael Stallings, Co-I

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Current CV

Dr. Stallings speaks on Behavior Genetics and Addiction:Ìý

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Publications

Stallings Highlighted Publications

Risky sexual behavior is typically considered an externalizing trait. Katie's paper has demonstrated that there is also an internalizing pathway to risky sexual behavior that has been Ìýunderstudied.

(Behavior Genetics, 2024)

Risky Sexual Behavior (RSB) is typically considered an externalizing trait. In this paper we use Colorado and Minnesota twin samples to show that RSB is also associated with internalizing traits. This internalizing pathway may be stronger in females than males but there was insufficient power to support this hypothesis.

(Behavior Genetics, 2023)

This was Kyle Kent's undergraduate honors thesis. Although the analysis did not support his hypothesis it was a great idea and an ambitious project for an undergraduate. Kyle hypothesized that some of the effects of early childhood trauma on adult mental health would be mediated through changes in executive function. It is likely that the CADD measures available to him were largely responsible for the null findings.

(Child Abuse & Neglect, 2021)