Adrian Raine, D.Phil., is the Robert G. Wright Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Program, University of Southern California. After two years as an airline accountant with British Airways, he received his bachelor's degree in Experimental Psychology from Oxford University in 1977, and his D.Phil. in Psychology from York University, England, in 1982. After spending four years in two top-security prisons in England where he worked as a prison psychologist, he was appointed Lecturer in Behavioral Sciences in the Department of Psychiatry, Nottingham University in 1984. In 1986 he became Director of the Mauritius Child Health project, a longitudinal study of child mental health that today constitutes one of his key research projects.

Dr. Raine emigrated to the United States in 1987 to take up a position as Assistant Professor in Psychology at the University of Southern California. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1990, and spent the following three years as Associate Chair of the Psychology Department. In 1994 he was promoted to Professor of Psychology, and in 1999 was given an endowed chair (Robert G. Wright Professor of Psychology). Other awards include the Young Scientist of the Year Award from the British Psychological Society (1980), a Research Scientist Development Award from NIMH (1993), an Independent Scientist Award from NIMH (1999), the Joseph Zubin Memorial Award (1999), and USC's Associate's Award for Creativity in Research (2003).

For the past 28 years, Dr. Raine's research has focused on the neurobiological and biosocial bases of antisocial and violent behavior in both children and adults. He has published five books and 172 journal articles and book chapters, been the Principal Investigator on 17 extramural research grants and main mentor on 8 NIH pre- and post-doctoral awards, and given over 175 invited presentations both nationally and internationally. Together with several research colleagues he has been instrumental in helping establish a brain imaging research center at USC. His research interests include the neurobiology of violence, psychopathic and antisocial behavior; schizotypal personality; alcoholism; brain imaging; psychophysiology; neurochemistry; neuropsychology; and behavioral and molecular genetics.

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