Jim Grigsby

Jim Grigsby, Ph.D., has done cognitive neuroscience and health services research for thirty years at the University of Colorado Denver (UCD). He is a Professor in the Department of Psychology, and Professor of Medicine in the Division of Health Care Policy and Research (HCPR) in the UCD School of Medicine. He has been involved in research with MDMA for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder, and the use of psilocybin for depression, and he is co-editor with Charles S. Grob, M.D., of the Handbook of Medical Hallucinogens. An author of many peer-reviewed scientific papers, he also published Neurodynamics of Personality, the first comprehensive framework for understanding personality based on cognitive neuroscience and nonlinear dynamical systems theory. His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Defense, as well as other federal, state, and private sources. Dr. Grigsby obtained a B.A. from the University of Kansas, an M.A. from the University of Regina (Saskatchewan), and a doctorate from the University of Colorado Boulder.