Marian L. Logrip

Marian L. Logrip is an Associate Professor at the Department of Neuroscience, School of Science, Indiana University in Indianapolis. Her research focuses on understanding how stress and alcohol consumption interact, particularly emphasizing sex differences in neural adaptations to these factors. She investigates mechanisms underlying stress-related neuropsychiatric disorders and alcohol use, with a special interest in long-term effects of trauma on neurocircuitry and addiction comorbidity.

Dr. Logrip holds a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of California, San Francisco (2007) and a B.S. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania (1997). She also completed postdoctoral training as a Research Associate and later Senior Research Associate at The Scripps Research Institute (2007–2015).

Her research interests include molecular and circuit-level adaptations in the brain due to stress and alcohol exposure, identifying sex-specific differences in these processes, and exploring therapeutic targets for anxiety and addiction. Key areas involve phosphodiesterase regulation, corticosterone sensitivity, and the role of CRF in addiction neurobiology.

Dr. Logrip collaborates with institutions like the Indiana Alcohol Research Center and Stark Neurosciences Research Institute. She advises students in her lab and has contributed to studies on glucocorticoid receptor antagonism in alcohol dependence and computational models of alcohol's impact on fear conditioning.

Her work examines how environmental factors (e.g., housing conditions) influence alcohol-related behaviors and stress responses, with recent studies addressing PTSD models in rodents and sex-specific timelines of neuroadaptations. Dr. Logrip’s research bridges basic neuroscience with translational medicine, aiming to improve treatments for comorbid disorders.