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My research focuses on how exposure to drugs of abuse like alcohol, vaporized nicotine, or psychedelic compounds alter neuronal network function via both intrinsic and extrinsic forms of plasticity and how pathological network alterations contribute to the development of clinical conditions such as drug addiction or psychiatric disorders like anxiety and depression. We employ preclinical rodent models of drug exposure with electrophysiological techniques to monitor individual and/or population-specific neuronal activity and to determine how neuroplastic changes in excitability and synaptic transmission contribute to network signaling and behavior in health and disease.
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UNC AFFILIATIONS:
Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, Neuroscience Center, Pharmacology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Addiction/Substance Use Disorder, Behavior, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Physiology, Systems Biology |