top of page

​

​

We are generally interested in understanding how our brains process reward and aversion, whether in healthy subjects or in the context of neuropsychiatric disease.

​

We focus our work on basal ganglia structures like the striatum and nucleus accumbens, or the ventral tegmental area (home of dopamine neurons)

​

Some of the research questions we are interested in:

​

(1) How does cellular diversity contribute to reward and aversion processing by individual brain regions ? e.g. input-output diversity, topographical diversity, transcriptomic diversity

​

(2) How does abnormal development of the reward/aversion system impact the risk for adult neuropsychiatric phenotypes ? 

​

(3) What is the impact of Western nutrition (in particular high fat diets) or metabolic factors on the processing of rewards and aversion by our brains ?

​

REWARD AND AVERSION PROCESSING IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
composite_merged.tif
EOPN3F~1.TIF
VTA Chrimson TH.tif
bottom of page