Mary Becker is a 2015 Ph.D. from the clinical psychology program at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Becker is currently a behavioral health psychologist at Hennepin Healthcare. Prior, she was a Behavioral Health Postdoctoral Fellow at the UM Medical School in the Department of Family Medicine. Mary has a longstanding interest in the development and treatment of substance use disorders. Her dissertation focused on behavioral and brain-based correlates of heavy marijuana use.

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Last updated: November 26, 2022

Publications

• Becker, MP, Collins, PF, Schultz, A., Urosevic, S., Schmaling, B., Luciana, M (in press). Longitudinal changes in cognition in young adult cannabis users. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2017.1385729.
• Becker, M.P., Collins, P.F., Lim, K.O., Muetzel, R.L., Luciana, M. (2015). Longitudinal changes in white matter microstructure after heavy cannabis use. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 23-35. DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2015.10.004.
• Becker, M.P., Collins, P.F., Luciana, M. (2014). Neurocognition in college-aged daily marijuana users. Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 36(4), 379-98. DOI: 10.1080/13803395.2014.893996.
• Muetzel, R.L., Marjanska, M., Collins, P.F., Becker, M.P., Valabrague, R., Auerbach, E.J., Lim, K.O., Luciana, M. (2013). In vivo 1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy in young-adult daily marijuana users. NeuroImage: Clinical, 2, 581-589. DOI: 10.1016/j.nicl.2013.04.011.