The O'Donnell lab
at the Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology and Program in Neuroscience

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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News:

New Book!!

 

 

O’Donnell, P. (Ed.) Animal Models of Schizophrenia and Related Disorders. Humana Press, NY, 2011.

 

 

Dr. Frankenpeep

Lab entry to the 2012 Washington Post Peeps Diorama Contest

 

 

Awards!

Gwen Calhoon received a 2011 Graduate Program in Life Sciences (GPILS) Otani Award. Congratulations!!!

 

New lab members:

Meriem Gaval joined us as a postdoc on January 2012

Kimmie Konka joined us as a research technician on February 2012

 

 

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.