Patricio O'Donnell, MD, PhD
CURRICULUM VITAE
Address: Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
20 Penn St., Room S251
Baltimore, MD 21201
Telephone: Office: (410) 706-6411 Lab: (410) 706-6412
Education
1985 – 1990 Degree: Ph.D. (Doctor en Medicina)
University of Buenos Aires, Dept. of Physiology, School of Medicine
Field: Physiology
1976 – 1983 Degree: M.D. (Médico)
University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1990 – 1995 Research Associate
Department of Neuroscience
University of Pittsburgh
1983 – 1984 Residency in Internal Medicine
Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires,
(first two years of a four-year program)
2007 – present Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of Maryland School of Medicine
2006 – present Professor with Tenure
Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology
University of Maryland School of Medicine
2003 – 2006 Professor with Tenure (tenure effective May 7, 2003)
Center for Neuropharmacology & Neuroscience
Albany Medical College
2000 – 2003 Associate Professor
Center for Neuropharmacology & Neuroscience
Albany Medical College
1997 – 2000 Assistant Professor
Departments of Pharmacology & Neuroscience, and
Neurology, Albany Medical College
1995 – 1997 Research Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience
University of Pittsburgh
1986 – 1991 Jefe de Trabajos Prácticos (Instructor / Lecturer)
Department of Physiology, neurophysiology group
School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Professional Society Memberships
American Association for the Advancement of Sciences
American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP)
American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET)
Collegium Internationale Neuro-psychopharmacologicum (CINP)
European Behavioral Pharmacology Society
International Basal Ganglia Society
International Brain Research Organization (IBRO)
Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS)
Society for Neuroscience
Society of Biological Psychiatry
Honors and Awards
1985 – 1990 Doctoral Fellowship, Argentine National Research Council (CONICET)
1987 Travel Grant, IBRO, for 2nd World Congress of Neuroscience
1991 Prize "Facultad de Medicina 1990" to best basic doctoral thesis.
School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires.
1993 Travel Award, Center for Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh
for International Congress on Schizophrenia Research.
1994 Young Scientist Award, Seventh Biennial Winter Workshop on Schizophrenia
1994 Postdoctoral fellow Award for Excellence in Neuroscience Research,
Pittsburgh Neuroscience Society
1995 Young Investigator Award, International Congress on Schizophrenia Research
1995 NARSAD Young Investigator Award
1998 Wiggers Fellowship, Albany Medical College
1999 Gordon Research Conference on Catecholamines Travel Fellowship
2000 Travel Fellowship for 2000 Winter Conference on Brain Research
2001 NARSAD Independent Investigator Award (Wodecroft Investigator)
2001 Elected to Membership in American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
2003 NARSAD Independent Investigator Award
2006 Promoted to Fellow, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
2007 Scientific Council, NARSAD
2007-2009 Program Chair, Winter Conference on Brain Research
2009 Chair, Gordon Conference on Catecholamines
2010 NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award
2012-2014 Conference Chair, Winter Conference on Brain Research
Administrative Service
Institutional Service
Universidad de Buenos Aires
1988 – 1990 Member of the Board (“Consejo Directivo”),
elected in representation of the School’s alumni.
School of Medicine, University of Buenos Aires
Albany Medical College
1998 Curriculum consultant, First year Core Curriculum for Graduate Students
1998 – 2005 Accelerated BS/MD Admissions Committee (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
-Albany Medical College)
1998 – 2000 Thesis Committee, Zhaohui Cai, PhD
2002 – 2006 Center for Neuropharmacology & Neuroscience Graduate Education Committee
2002 – 2006 Co-Director, Neuroscience I course (for 1st year medical students)
2002 – 2005 First and Second Years Promotions Committee
2002 – 2006 Intra-operatory monitoring; deep-brain stimulation procedures for Parkinson’s
Disease patients; Dept. Neurosurgery.
2004 Bridge Grants process review Committee
2003 – 2006 Thesis Committees: Chris Fasano, Nicholas Mitchell, Tara Kistler
University of Maryland
2006 – present Thesis Committees: Heather Dobbins, Donna Calu, Barak Schechter, Marie Hemelt, Georgia Dendrinos, Greg Bisonnette, Mary Holder, Teghpal Singh, Adam Taylor, Sara Shelton, Jessica Lucas
2006 – 2007 Co-chair; Faculty Search Committee; Dept. Anatomy & Neurobiology
2007 – present Training committee; Program in Neuroscience
Other
2000 External Examiner for Dr. Hirac Gurden Thesis defense. Universite Paris Sud,
Orsay, France
2004 External Examiner for Dr. Heather Trantham-Davis Thesis Defense
Dept. Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
2005 External Examiner for Dr. Nicolas Mallet Thesis Defense, Universite
Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France
2005 External Examiner for Dr. Claire Hardwick Thesis Defense. University of
Oxford, UK
2006 External Examiner for Dr. Bogdan Neagu Thesis Defense, State University of New York, Albany, NY
2007 External Examiner for Dr. Jayanth Chandran Thesis Defense, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
2010 External Examiner for Dr. Danielle Counotte Thesis Defense, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Local Service
1986 - 1990 Physician, Centro Medicus de Diagnóstico, Buenos Aires, Argentina
National Service
2000 Ad-hoc member, MDCN-5 Study Section, NIH
2001 Ad-hoc member, IFCN-3 Study Section, NIH
2001 Integrative Neuroscience Initiative on Alcoholism Review Panel, NIH
2001-2002 Ad-hoc member, IFCN-1 Study Section, NIH
2002-2006 Member, NMB Study Section (formerly IFCN-1), NIH
2002 Ad-hoc member, BDCN-2 Study Section, NIH
2003-present Board of Directors, Winter Conference on Brain Research
2004-2006 Conte Centers Review Panel ZMH1 BRB PO5, NIMH
2004-2006 Credentials Committee, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
2005 NINDS Udall Centers Review Group
2007-2009 Program Committee, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
2007 Cognitive Neuroscience Treatment Research to Improve Cognition in
Schizophrenia (CNTRICS)
2007-2009 Program Chair, Winter Conference on Brain Research
2007-present Scientific Council, National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and
Affective Disorders (NARSAD)
2007 Ad-hoc reviewer, NMB study section, NIH
2007 ZMH1 ERB-C 02 S Special Emphasis Panel, NIH
2008 Ad-hoc reviewer, NTRC study section, NIH
2008 Ad-hoc reviewer, ZRG1 IFCN-A study section, NIH
2008 Mail-reviewer, NMB study section, NIH
2009 ZMH1 ERB-C 04 Special Emphasis Panel, NIMH
2009 mail reviewer, NPAS Study Section, NIH
2009 ZMH1 ERB-M (01) Special Emphasis Panel, NIMH
2009 ZRG1 IFCN-A (58) R Study Section, NIH
2009 ZRG1 BDCN-N (02) M Study Section, NIH
2009 ZRG1 F03B-H (20) Study Section, NIH
2009 ZRG1 IFCN-H (02) M Study Section, NIH (Chair)
2010 Ad-hoc reviewer, NMB Study Section, NIH
2010 ZRG1 BDCN N (03) Study Section, NIH
2010 ZRG1 IFCN-H (03) M Study Section, NIH
2010 ZRG1 BDCN-W (02) M Study Section, NIH
2010 Ad-hoc reviewer, NIMH Board of Scientific Counselors
2010 ZDA1 SXC-E (07) Special Emphasis Panel/Scientific Review Group, NIH
2011 ZMH1 ERB-S (02) S Study section, NIH
2011 ZRG1 MDCN-G (04) M Study Section, NIH
2011 ZRG1 IFCN-A-03M Special Emphasis Panel, NIH
2011 Ad-hoc reviewer, PMDA Study Section, NIH
2011-2013 Member, SMI Study Section, NIH
International Service
2004-2007 Councillor, International Basal Ganglia Society
2005-present Executive Committee, Motivational Neuronal Network Society (MNN)
2006-present Member, Canada Research Chairs College of Reviewers
2007 Vice-chair, Gordon Conference on Catecholamines
2007-present International Conference on Schizophrenia Research, Program Committee
2007 MRC Grant reviewer, Medical Research Council, UK
2008 Reviewer, National Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada
2008 Reviewer, BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship, UK
2009 Chair, Gordon Research Conference on Catecholamines
2009 Reviewer, Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation, Switzerland
2010-2012 Schizophrenia International Research Society (SIRS), Program Committee
2010 Reviewer, Swiss National Science Foundation
2011 Evaluation Panel, SAMENTA 2011 – Agence Nationale de la Recherche, France
Editorial Advisory Boards
1998-present Journal of Pharmacology & Experimental Therapeutics
2003-2008 The Journal of Neuroscience (Associate Editor)
2004-present Synapse
2005-2009 Schizophrenia Bulletin
2005-2007 Neuropsychopharmacology
2008-present Review Editor; Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
2009-present Neuropsychopharmacology
2009-present International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
2010-present Adolescent Health, Medicine and Therapeutics
2010-present Guest Field Editor, International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology
2010-present Review Editor, Frontiers in Schizophrenia
Ad-hoc reviewer (past 3 years)
Archives of General Psychiatry; Biological Psychiatry, Brain Research, Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology; Cerebral Cortex, European Journal of Neuroscience, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Journal of Neurochemistry, Journal of Neurophysiology, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Physiology, Journal of Psychopharmacology, Molecular Psychiatry, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Neuron, Neuropharmacology, Neuroscience, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Neuroscience Letters, PLoS ONE, PNAS, Progress in Neurobiology, Progress in Neuropsychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry, Psychopharmacology, Schizophrenia Bulletin, The Neuroscientist
Teaching Service
Albany Medical College
1998 – 2006 Lectures in “Cellular/Molecular Neuroscience” (3 / year). Graduate Program.
1999 – 2006 Lectures in “Neuroscience I” for Medical Students (currently 12 lectures/year)
1999 – 2005 “Neurophysiology” elective course. Graduate Program, (6 lectures/year).
2000 – 2005 Lectures in “Neuroanatomy and Nervous Systems Disorders”; Graduate
Program (3 / year)
University of Maryland
2007 Lectures in “Neuroscience” for Medical Students (3 lectures/year)
2007 – present Coursemaster, “Systems and Cognitive Neuroscience” Program in Neuroscience
1997-2001 Jennifer Greene, M.S. (Graduate student)
current position: Criminalist II; Missouri Highway Patrol
1998-2001 Jian Wang, Ph.D. (postdoc)
current position: unknown (fired for scientific misconduct)
1998-2004 Yvette Peters, Ph.D. (Graduate Student)
current position: Medical Writer, Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, CA
1999-2003 Yukiori Goto, PhD (Graduate Student)
current position: Assistant Professor, McGill University, Montreal
2000-2004 Anne Marie Brady, Ph.D. (postdoc)
current position: Associate Professor of Psychology, St. Mary’s
College of Maryland, St. Mary’s, MD
2001-2006 Kuei-Yuan Tseng, MD,PhD (postdoc)
current position: Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, Chicago Medical
School, North Chicago, IL
2002-2004 Stephen Sammut, Ph.D. (postdoc)
current position: Assistant Professor: Franciscan University
2003-2007 Marianne Benoit-Marand (postdoc)
Current position: Charge de Recherche: Universite de Poitiers, France
2003-2010 Kathy Toreson (Graduate Student)
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Maryland
2003-2011 Jonathan Dilgen (Graduate Student)
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Medical University of South Carolina
2004-2005 Manuel Portavella (postdoc)
current position: Profesor Titular, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
2004-2006 Rifat Hussain (postdoc)
current position: Research Associate, Albany Medical College
2004-2009 Aaron Gruber (postdoc)
Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Lethbridge, Canada
2005-2006 Sarah McCallum (research associate)
current position: Assistant Professor, Albany Medical College
2006-2007 Claire Hardwick (postdoc)
Current position: Contracts manager, Medical Research Council, UK
2006-2009 Carrie John (postdoc)
2006-2011 Fred Huppé-Gourgues (postdoc)
Current position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Montreal, Canada
2007-present Ross Cardarelli (Graduate Student)
2008-present Gwen Calhoon (Graduate Student)
2009-present Rose Marie Karlsson (postdoc)
2009-present Hugo Tejeda (Graduate Student)
2010-present Kathy Toreson (postdoc)
2010-present Danielle Counotte (postdoc)
2010-present Elyse Sullivan (Graduate Student)
2010-present Roger Cachope (postdoc)
2011-present Eastman Lewis (Graduate Student)
2011-present Julie Brooks (postdoc)
2011-present Katie Alexander (postdoc)
Research Support
Current Support:
1997-2013 National Institute of Mental Health (O’Donnell)
“Electrophysiology of the prefrontal cortex” (R01 MH57683)
2000-2015 National Institute of Mental Health (O’Donnell)
“Information processing in the nucleus accumbens” (R01 MH60131)
2001-2013 National Institute of Drug Addiction (O’Donnell)
“Animal model of dual diagnosis” (R01 DA14020)
2010-2011 NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award (O’Donnell)
“Oxidative stress during development and inhibitory circuits in schizophrenia models”
No-cost extension.
2010-2012 National Institute of Mental Health (Sawa)
“PICK1 knockout mice: Role for D-serine in neonatal forebrains” (R21 MH85226-01)
2010-2014 National Institute of Mental Health (Hong)
“Neural oscillatory biomarkers for genetics and animal models of schizophrenia” (R01 MH085646-01)
2011-2013 Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund (Kai)
“Direct generation of human dopaminergic neurons by defined factors (2011-MSCRFII-0167-00)
Completed:
1992-1994 Scottish Rite Schizophrenia Research Program (co-Investigator; PI: Grace)
“Modulation of Dye Coupling in Nucleus Accumbens by
Dopamine Receptor Agonists and Antagonists”
1995-1997 Tourette’s Syndrome Association Permanent Research Fund (O’Donnell)
“Dopaminergic Effects on the Integration of Motor- and Affective-
related Inputs to the Nucleus Accumbens”
1995-1997 NARSAD Young Investigator Award (O’Donnell)
“Dopaminergic Control of the Hippocampal Gating of
Prefrontal Cortical Throughput in the Nucleus Accumbens”
2000–2001 NPS Allelix Corp. (O’Donnell)
“In vivo electrophysiological characterization of glycine transporter 1 inhibitors
in the rat”
2001-2003 NARSAD Independent Investigator Award (O’Donnell)
“Electrophysiology of Mesocorticolimbic Systems”
2003-2005 National Institute of Mental Health (co-Investigator; PI: Sesack)
“Afferent Regulation of VTA Dopamine Neuron Populations” (R01 MH67937)
(subcontract on grant)
2003-2006 NARSAD Independent Investigator Award (O’Donnell)
“Physiological changes in animals with a transient neonatal hippocampal inactivation”
2004-2007 National Science Foundation (O’Donnell)
“US-France Cooperative Research: Electrophysiological studies of dopamine in the striatum”
2003-2007 National Institute of Mental Health / Fogarty International Center (O'Donnell)
“Cortical control of striatal cell activity” (R03 TW006282)
2009-2011 National Institute of Mental Health (Schoenbaum)
“Errors and Expectancies in OFC and VTA and their Roles in Associative Learning”
(R01 MH84711)
Other support (conferences)
2009-2010 NSF (O’Donnell)
“CONF: 2009 Graduate Research Seminar Catecholamines” (0840540)
2009-2010 National Institute of Drug Addiction (O’Donnell)
“2009 Catecholamines Gordon Research Conference” (R13 DA26631)
Trainee support
2002-2005 “Behavioral Sensitization and accumbens electrophysiology” F32 DA014821
Anne Marie Brady
2005-2007 “Control of cortical inputs to the ventral striatum by dopamine” Tourette Syndrome Association Young Investigator Award
Aaron Gruber
2006-2008 Post-Doctoral scholarship from the Fonds de Recherche en Santé du Québec (FRSQ-FCAR-Santé)
Frederic Huppe-Gourgues
2008-2009 “Dopamine Effects in Prefrontal Cortex in Models of Drug Abuse and Schizophrenia” F32 DA024538
Carrie John
2010-2013 “The Nucleus Accumbens as a Behavioral Switchboard” F31 MH092043
Gwendolyn Calhoon
Major Invited Presentations
Invited presentations and symposia:
1993 4th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, Colorado Springs, CO
1995 5th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, Hot Springs, VA
1995 X Annual retreat, Department of Neuroscience University of Pittsburgh, Johnstown, PA
Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
1996 Department of Pharmacology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY
Eighth Annual NARSAD Scientific Symposium, New York, NY
1998 Hudson-Berkshire chapter of the Society for Neuroscience, SUNY Albany, NY
New York Academy of Science Symposium: Advancing from the ventral striatum to the extended
Amygdala: Implications for Neuropsychiatry and Drug Abuse, Charlottesville, VA
1999 32nd Winter Conference on Brain Research, Snowmass, CO
Tenth Annual Spring Brain Conference, Sedona, AZ
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Dept. Physiology, School of Medicine, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Institute of Genetics and Molec. Biol. (INGEBI), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
2000 Neuroscience Grand Rounds, Dept Neurology, Albany Medical Center
Neurodegenerative Disorders: Common Molecular Mechanisms, Tobago, Trinidad & Tobago
Behavioral Neuroscience Colloquium, The College of St. Rose, Albany, NY
INSERM U289, Hôpital La Pitié-Salpetrière, Paris, France
2001 Seventh International Basal Ganglia Society Meeting, Bay of Islands, New Zealand
Dept. Psychology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
2002 35th Winter Conference on Brain Research, Snowmass, CO
Dept. Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
4th Argentine Neuroscience Workshop, Valle Hermoso, Cordoba, Argentina
7th Neurodegenerative Disorders: Common Molecular Mechanisms, Montego Bay, Jamaica
Dept. Psychiatry, Univ. Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Institute of Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
57th Society of Biological Psychiatry meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Undergraduate Program in Neuroscience, SUNY Albany, NY
Dopamine 2002, Portland, OR
McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA
Dept. Physiology, Northwestern University School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Dept. Pharmacology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
Merck Research Laboratories, King of Prussia, PA
41st ACNP Meeting, San Juan, PR
2003 36th Winter Conference on Brain Research, Snowbird, UT
International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, Colorado Springs, CO
Dept. Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Dept. Physiology & Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
Sensory-Motor Systems Workshop, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State Univ.
Gordon Conference on Catecholamines, Oxford, UK
Hudson-Berkshire chapter of the Society for Neuroscience, SUNY Albany, NY
33rd Annual Meeting, Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, LA
Department of Neuroscience, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2004 37th Winter Conference on Brain Research, Copper Mountain, CO
Dept. Psychology, Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center, UCSF, San Francisco, CA
AstraZeneca symposium on “Hippocampus Involvement in Schizophrenia”, Wilmington, DE
XXIV CINP Congress, Paris, France
FASEB Summer Research Conference: Modern Scientific Approaches to Drug Addiction:
Relationships to Behavior, Tucson, AZ
Eighth International Basal Ganglia Society Meeting, Crieff, Scotland
Center of Neuroscience, Universite Bordeaux II, Bordeaux, France
Dept. Biology, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
NIDA Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD
Grand Rounds, Dept. Psychiatry, Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY
2005 38th Winter Conference on Brain Research, Breckenridge, CO
Neuroendocrine Signaling in Adolescence: Relevance to Mental Health; NIMH, Bethesda, MD
Dept. Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
International Behavioral Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Workshop on Schizophrenia, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Gordon Conference on Catecholamines, Andover, NH
7th Argentine Congress of Neuropsychiatry, Buenos Aires, Argentina
35th Annual Meeting, Society for Neuroscience, Washington, DC
44th ACNP Meeting, Waikoloa, Hawaii
2006 Dept. Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
39th Winter Conference on Brain Research, Steamboat Springs, CO
Lieber Seminar, Dept. Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
International Workshop on Neuropsychiatry, INECO, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dept. Pharmacology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
MAP Distinguished Lecture, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD
Dept. Pharmacology, Rosalind Franklin University of Health Sciences, North Chicago, IL
Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, Columbia University, New York, NY
61st Annual Convention, Society of Biological Psychiatry, Toronto, Canada
Department of Psychology, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
School of Medicine, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Workshop on Schizophrenia, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
2nd International Workshop on Computational Neuropsychiatry “Schizophrenia: Connectivity of Pyramidal cells in the prefrontal cortex and antipsychotic medication – data and models” District Hospital Haar, Munich, Germany
Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, Baltimore, MD
2007 Brain Research Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Galenea Corp., Cambridge, MA
Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, Colorado Springs, CO
Seminars in Neuroscience, St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD
Graduate Program in Neuroscience, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA
Dopamine 50 years, Göteborg, Sweden
NIMH Workshop “Novel methods for examining prefrontal cortical interactions with cortical and subcortical systems that support complex mental function”, Bethesda, MD
Gordon Conference on Catecholamines, Oxford, UK
NIDA Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD
Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA
2008 41st Winter Conference on Brain Research, Snowbird, UT
NIAAA/NIH, Rockville, MD
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Maryland Dental School, Baltimore, MD
63rd Annual Convention, Society of Biological Psychiatry, Washington, DC
Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, IN
Genes Cognition and Psychosis Program, NIMH, Bethesda, MD
Lausanne Neurobiology Seminars, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
1st Schizophrenia International Research Society Conference, Venice, Italy
XXVI CINP Congress, Munich, Germany
Maryland Psychiatric Research Center, 2008 Neuroscience Day, Catonsville, MD
Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany, NY
47th American College of Neuropsychopharmacology meeting, Scottsdale, AZ
2009 42nd Winter Conference on Brain Research, Copper Mountain, CO
Dept. Neurobiology and Behavioral Sciences, SUNY Stony Brook, NY
12th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research (ICOSR), San Diego, CA
Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
64th Annual Convention, Society of Biological Psychiatry, Vancouver, BC, Canada
EMBO Workshop – Cortical Interneurons in Health and Disease, Costa d’en Blanes, Mallorca, Spain
Dept. Anatomy, Physiology & Genetics, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD
From Gene Discovery to Cell Biology in Psychiatry: The Emerging Case for DISC1, Napa, CA
Dept. Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Staging Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Implications for Etiopathogenesis and Treatment, Mojacar, Spain
1st International Symposium on Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuropsychiatry. INECO, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2010 43rd Winter Conference on Brain Research, Breckenridge, CO
2nd Schizophrenia International Research Society Meeting, Florence, Italy
Dept. Psychology, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Lieber Seminar, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, New York, NY
Workshop on Schizophrenia and Related Disorders, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Hospital de Pediatria J.P. Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina
DISC1 2010 meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland
Department of Community Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
Rudolph Magnus Institute of Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands
Minisymposium “Nico-teen: about adolescence and nicotine”, Center for Neurogenomics & Cognitive Research, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Rosalind Franklin University, North Chicago, IL
Simposio INECO de Psiquiatria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Brain & Behavior Distinguished Scholar Lecture, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
Dynamical Neuroscience XVIII. The brain at rest: not at rest. San Diego, CA
2011 44th Winter Conference on Brain Research, Keystone, CO
Department of Pharmacology, University of Texas San Antonio, San Antonio, TX
Lieber Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
13th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, Colorado Springs, CO
66th Annual Scientific Meeting, Society of Biological Psychiatry, San Francisco, CA
Symposium on Animal Models of Psychiatric Disorders, University of Seville, Spain
9th Dutch Endo-Neuro-Psycho Meeting, Lunteren, Netherlands
Department of Physiology, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011 Gordon Conference on Catecholamines, ME
2012 Medical Science Training Program Lectures, University of California, Irvine, CA
Chaired panels and symposia:
1997 The nucleus accumbens as an information integrator. P. O’Donnell, P.W. Kalivas, N.R. Swerdlow
& D.S. Zahm, 30th Winter Conference on Brain Research, Breckenridge, CO
1998 Parallel loops in basal ganglia circuits: Segregated or interconnected? P. O’Donnell, H.
Groenewegen, Y. Smith & C.R. Gerfen, 31st Winter Conference on Brain Research, Snowbird, UT
2000 Dopamine: Is it excitatory, inhibitory, neither or both? P. O’Donnell, M.S. Levine, R. Malenka
& G. Snyder. 33rd Winter Conference on Brain Research, Breckenridge, CO
2001 Dopaminergic projections and neural ensembles in prefrontal cortical-ventral striatal loops. P.
O’Donnell, A. Grace, W. Schultz & L. Peoples. 34th Winter Conference on Brain Research,
Steamboat Springs, CO
2001 Afferent modulation of mesoaccumbens function. M. Marinelli, K.A. Cunningham, F.J. White &
A. Kelley 1st Joint Meeting of Eur. Brain & Behaviour Society and European Behavioral
Pharmacology Society Marseille, France
2002 Animal models of schizophrenia: Are we there yet? A. Grace, L. Peoples, M. Geyer & P.
O’Donnell 57th Society of Biological Psychiatry meeting, Philadelphia, PA
2002 Spiraling limbic-to-motor information flow in cortico-basal ganglia circuits. S. Haber, P. O’Donnell, W. Schultz & M. Laruelle. ACNP 41st Annual Meeting, San Juan, PR
2004 Prefrontal-hippocampal disconnection and dopamine disregulation in schizophrenia: from basic to
clinical research. B. Lipska, P. O’Donnell, T. Jay, A. Bertolino, A. Heinz. XXIV CINP Congress,
Paris, France
2004 Psychostimulants. J. Kauer, M. Marinelli, P. O’Donnell and P. Vezina. FASEB Summer Research
Conference: Modern Scientific Approaches to Drug Addiction: Relationships to Behavior, Tucson, AZ
2005 Modulation of active states in neocortex. R. Cossart, M.V. Sanchez-Vives, I. Timofeev, KY Tseng
38th Winter Conference on Brain Research, Breckenridge, CO
2005 Cortical deficits in schizophrenia: from genes to function (Symposium). D.R. Weinberger, A.J.
Law, D.A. Lewis & P. O’Donnell. 35th Annual Meeting, Society for Neuroscience, Washington,
DC
2005 Neural changes in adolescence and onset of schizophrenia. J. Giedd, P. O’Donnell, B.
Lipska, J. Rapoport. 44th ACNP Meeting, Waikoloa, HI
2006 Does dopamine control striatal glutamate, the other way around, or both? P. O’Donnell, A.
Michael, D. Sulzer, M. Benoit-Marand, B. Yamamoto, 39th Winter Conference on Brain Research,
Steamboat Springs, CO
2006 Cortical interneurons in schizophrenia pathophysiology: possible novel therapeutical approaches.
P. O’Donnell, D. Lewis, F. Benes, A. Deutch, 61st Annual Convention, Society of Biological Psychiatry, Toronto, Canada
2007 Do they hear squeaks? What have we learned from animal models? P. O’Donnell, A. Grace, J. Koenig, C. Kellendonk, International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, Colorado Springs, CO
2007 New evidence implicating metabotropic glutamate receptors in the etiology, pathophysiology and treatment of schizophrenia. P. O’Donnell, A. Breier, D.R. Weinberger, B. Moghaddam, J. Krystal, S. Kapur. 46th ACNP Meeting, Boca Raton, FL.
2008 The adolescent reward system. Too much of a good thing? S. Andersen, P. O’Donnell, A. Galvan, M. Ernst. 41st Winter Conference on Brain Research, Snowbird, UT
2008 Mechanistic convergence of D2 and mGlu2/3 receptors in treating schizophrenia. P. O’Donnell, B. Moghaddam, J. Krystal, J.T. Coyle. 63rd Annual Convention, Society of Biological Psychiatry, Washington, DC.
2008 How can mGluR2/3 agonists work as well as D2 antagonists in treating schizophrenia? P. O’Donnell, B. Moghaddam, M. Laruelle, B. Kinon. 1st Schizophrenia International Research Society Conference, Venice, Italy.
2008 Functional consequences of prefrontal cortical interneuron deficits in schizophrenia: insights from animal models and human imaging. P. O’Donnell, S. Frangou, M.O. Krebs, M. Cuenod, E. Bullmore. XXVI CINP Congress, Munich, Germany.
2008 Functional consequences of cortical interneuron deficits in schizophrenia: Insight from animal models and human imanging. P. O’Donnell, M. Behrens, J. Lisman, S. Heckers. 47th ACNP meeting, Scottsdale, AZ.
2009 Altered cortical interneurons in schizophrenia: From animal models to human studies. 12th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, San Diego, CA.
2011 Drug sensitivity in adolescence: Vulnerability vs. resilience. P. O’Donnell, S. Andersen, D.S. Counotte, K. Frantz. 44th Winter Conference on Brain Research, Keystone, CO.
2011 Oxidative stress in cortical interneurons during development as a possible pathophysiological mechanism for schizophrenia. M. Behrens, P. O’Donnell, T. Sedlak, Kim Q. Do. 13th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, Colorado Springs, CO.
2011 Reward Processing During Adolescence and Vulnerability for Psychiatric Conditions. P. O’Donnell, B. Moghaddam, L. Vanderschuren, B. Luna. 66th Annual Scientific Meeting, Society for Biological Psychiatry, San Francisco, CA
Publications
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Commentaries
1. O’Donnell, P. Mesolimbic-mesocortical loops may encode saliency, not just reward. Behavioral & Brain Sciences – commentary 28 (2005) 360-361.
2. Greene, R., O’Donnell, P. Functional imaging during a reward prediction error task reveals psychosis associated abnormalities in activation of VTA and its target regions. Cell Science Reviews 4 (2008) 13-19.
3. Calhoon, G.G., O’Donnell, P. Many roads to motor deficits: loss of dopamine signaling in direct or indirect basal ganglia pathway leads to akinesia through distinct physiological mechanisms. Frontiers in Neuroscience4 (2010) 168. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2010.00168.
Books
1. O’Donnell, P. (Ed.) Cortical deficits in schizophrenia: From genes to function. Springer, NY, 2008.
2. O’Donnell, P. (Ed.) Animal Models of Schizophrenia and Related Disorders. Humana Press, NY, 2011.
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