Evan Morris, PhD

Morris specializes in using kinetic modeling and image processing to extract physiological information from dynamic PET images. His current projects include:

• Modeling and texture analysis to image Non-small cell lung cancer with tyrosine kinase inhibitor tracers
• Novel kinetic modeling to image dyskinesias in Parkinson's
• Continued Optimization of Dopamine Movies to study Addiction and Behavior
• Applying principles in functional connectivity and machine learning to analyze dopamine movies

• Imaging new targets in Depression, Alcoholism
  
  Using multimodal PET to understand the opioid system in alcoholism.
  
  Creating new parametric images to speed drug discovery

Morris and his group continue to refine mathematical and statistical aspects of their techniques for making "dopamine movies" of the brain. With their dopamine movies, Morris and colleague Kelly Cosgrove and their team discovered sex differences in brains of smokers smoking cigarettes (J Neurosci Dec 10, 2014).