Research
The Martz lab is conducting research focused on better understanding risk and protective factors, spanning brain, cognition, and behavior, underlying substance use in adolescents and young adults. Dr. Martz has used large-scale survey data (Monitoring the Future Survey), in-depth longitudinal data from a study of families with parental alcohol use disorder (Michigan Longitudinal Study), and multi-site neuropsychosocial data (Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study) in her research.
Dr. Martz is also Principal Investigator of the NeuroMod Study, which is funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (K01 AA027558). The NeuroMod Study is assessing developmental and sex differences in reward system modulation through real-time fMRI neurofeedback.
More information on the NeuroMod Study and how to get involved: https://umhealthresearch.org/studies/HUM00172198
NeuroMod Study
For the NeuroMod Study, we are studying the differences in the ability to control brain activity through a non-invasive brain imaging technique called real-time functional magnetic resonance (fMRI) neurofeedback.
Research Conducted with Local and National Datasets
Monitoring the Future (MTF) Survey
Using MTF data, Dr. Martz has examined national trends in substance use behavior, as well as risk and protective factors, among adolescents and young adults. MTF is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of Americans from adolescence through adulthood. Click here for more information.
Michigan Longitudinal Study (MLS)
Using MLS data, Dr. Martz has examined neuropsychosocial factors associated with substance use risk and resilience in adolescents and young adults, focusing predominately on youth with a family history of substance misuse. Since 1985, the Michigan Longitudinal Study (MLS) has yielded invaluable information about the causes of substance abuse by following a large group of individuals from early childhood into early adulthood, and their biological parents from early adulthood into late middle age. Click here for more information.
Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study
Using ABCD Study data, Dr. Martz has examined preadolescent factors associated with psychopathology and early substance use. She has also examined reward-related brain function in both MLS and ABCD Study samples in relation to family history of substance use problems. The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) StudySM is the largest long-term study of brain development and child health in the United States. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded leading researchers in the fields of adolescent development and neuroscience to conduct this ambitious project. The ABCD Research Consortium consists of a Coordinating Center, a Data Analysis, Informatics & Resource Center, and 21 research sites across the country (see map), which have invited 11,880 children ages 9-10 to join the study. Researchers will track their biological and behavioral development through adolescence into young adulthood. Click here for more information.
