Intended Audience
The Neuroscience Program welcomes Dr. Dan Kircher '10, biomedical scientist and project manager in the Department of Neuroscience
at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, who will give the sixth and final lecture in its 2020-2021 seminar series.
"Ethanol Experience Elicits Circuit Specific Adaptations of Ventral Hippocampal to Accumbens Glutamatergic Signaling"
Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is a chronic relapsing brain disease characterized by an impaired ability to stop or control alcohol use despite varied consequences for the individual. It is a spectrum disorder and cases can range from mild to severe. Current treatments for AUD have had limited success and gaining an understanding of how brain circuitry adapts to chronic alcohol consumption could identify novel targets for pharmacological intervention. This talk focuses on synaptic adaptations in addiction relevant regions of the brain produced by chronic alcohol (ethanol) exposure in an animal model of AUD.
Dan earned a PhD in Pharmacology from University of Texas at Austin in 2017. He pioneered optogenetic recording techniques in the lab that allowed for the precise dissection of neural circuits of interest and characterized novel findings of alcohols effect on critical brain reward circuitry and resulted in presentations at the Research Society on Alcoholism conference.
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