My primary research interest is on the glutamate receptor-mediated neuroplasticity in the striatum in mental disorders, including alcoholism and drug addiction and neurodegenerative disease. 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 Huntington’s disease, the neuroadaptations of striatal mediumsized spiny neurons as well as striatal interneurons are explored in specific neural circuits at both cellular and synaptic levels.
Yao-Ying Ma M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Post-doctoral
researcher
Ewa Galaj
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Ph.D. student
Changyong Guo
Research Scientist
Alyssa N White
Undergraduate research assistant
Katarzyna (Kasia) Rybczyk
Undergraduate research assistant
Jordan C Carpenter
Undergraduate research assistant
VICTORIA R ROSELLI
Undergraduate research assistant
Michael J Kersey
Undergraduate research assistant
Sarah I Im
Undergraduate research assistant
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Juliana M Cialdella
Undergraduate research assistant
Margaret C Ren
Undergraduate research assistant
Jonathan A Salas
10/2015-5/2017, Research Assistant
Ph.D. student
Medical Universtiy of South Carolina
Matthew Wend
12/2015-5/2017, Research Assistant
M.D. student
Liberty University College of Osteopathic medicine
Yoram Ebrahimi
