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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).

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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.

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We are recruiting graduate students and
undergraduate researchers to join our lab!