Welcome!
At The Hinojosa Lab, our mission is to create an intellectually stimulating environment that prepares the next generation of scientists passionate about using neuroscience to improve and develop treatments for co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and alcohol use disorder (AUD) in women of color.
OUR RESEARCH GOALs
Through our research, we aim to...
Characterize
neural systems
that support key components of PTSD+AUD clinical symptoms
Identify the
time course
in which clinical symptoms of PTSD and AUD develop
Explore
sex differences
in the development and maintenance of PTSD+AUD
... in marginalized groups.
meet DR. HINOJOSA
Director & Principal Investigator
I am an incoming tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of New Mexico. I am originally from the El Paso/Las Cruces area and completed a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) in 2016. I then completed my PhD in Experimental Psychology at Tufts University in 2021. I am a former Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow (2018-2021) and a NIAAA MOSAIC K99/R00 Research Fellow.
