MA LAB
Laboratory of Neuroplasticity and Brain Dysfunction
PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR
Yao-Ying Ma M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
My primary research interest is on the glutamate receptor-mediated neuroplasticity in the striatum in mental disorders, including alcoholism and drug addiction and neurodegenerative diseases. Combining whole-cell patch clamp recordings and in vivo / in vitro chemogenetics / optogenetics in animal models, such as drug self-administration model in rats / mice and transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease, the neuroadaptations of striatal medium-sized spiny neurons as well as striatal interneurons are explored in specific neural circuits at both cellular and synaptic levels.
lab Members
Changyong Guo
Research Assistant Professor
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Post-doctoral Researcher
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Ph.D. student
Michal A.
Lange
Data Tool Developer
Chandrashekar Rayanki,
Graduate Student
alumni
Post-doctoral Researchers
Lili Shan, Yixiao Luo, Eva Galaj
Undergraduate Students
Jonathan A Salas
Matthew Wend
Yoram Ebrahimi
Victoria Roselli
Margaret C Ren
Juliana M Cialdella
Alyssa N White
Jordan C Carpenter
Katarzyna (Kasia) Rybczyk
Sarah I Im
Abigail J Gates
Cruz Moreno