Areas of Study
Research Topics
- addiction, cannabinoid research
One of the most influential recent breakthroughs in brain research is the recognition that drugs of abuse simply hijack these normal plasticity processes and turn them into abnormal molecular, structural and functional alterations manifesting as maladaptive behavioral patterns and addiction.
Research Interests
- signaling pathways and brain circuits involved in substance abuse, the endocannabinoid system, synaptic plasticity, super-resolution imaging
