The O'Donnell lab
at the Department
of Anatomy & Neurobiology and Program in Neuroscience
News:
Awards!
Gwen Calhoon received a 2011 Graduate Program in Life Sciences (GPILS) Otani Award. Congratulations!!!
New lab members:
Julie Brooks, PhD and Katie Alexander, PhD joined us in July 2011
Both came from the lab of our friend John Bruno, at Ohio State UniversityMeredyth Wegener joined us in August 2011 as a research technician
Alex Hernandez joined us in October 2011 as a research technician
Meriem Gaval will join us as a postdoc on January 2012
She is finishing her PhD with David Weinshenker at Emory University
New Book!!
O’Donnell, P. (Ed.) Animal Models of Schizophrenia and Related Disorders. Humana Press, NY, 2011.
Recent publications:
- Adolescent onset of cortical disinhibition in schizophrenia: insights from animal models. O'Donnell, P., Schizophrenia Bulletin 2011, 37:484-492.
- Expectancy-related changes in firing of dopamine neurons depend on orbitofrontal cortex. Takahashi, Y.K., Roesch, M.R., Wilson, R.C., Toreson, K., O'Donnell, P., Niv, Y., Schoenbaum, G. Nature Neuroscience 2011, 14:1590-1597.
- Mediated devaluation in neonatal ventral hippocampal lesion rats. McDannald, M.A., Whitt, J.P., Calhoon, G.G., Piantadosi, P., Karlsson, R.M., O'Donnell, P., Schoenbaum, G. Biological Psychiatry 2011, 70:1122-1126.
- Periadolescent changes of D2-AMPA interactions in the rat nucleus accumbens. Huppe-Gourgues, F. and O'Donnell, P., Synapse 2012, 66:1-8.
- Cortical disinhibition in the neonatal ventral hippocampal lesion model of schizophrenia: new vistas on possible therapeutic approaches. Pharmacology & Therapeutics 2012, 133:19-25.
