Vicky added a paper
Vicky added a paper
Vicky The Society for Neuroscience Meeting in Washington DC is approaching. I'm preparing a poster about the role of dopamine D2 receptors in the prefrontal cortex during learning and memory. My presentation will be on Wed 11/16 am
Vicky Now you can follow me on twitter @vickypuig. Will try to report the latests findings in Neuroscience.
Department Member, BCS
Research Scientist
The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Thesis Title: Reciprocal control of the prefrontal cortex and the raphe nuclei
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Earl K. Miller
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About
Maria Victoria (Vicky) Puig is a Research Scientist at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During 2005 she implemented a first postdoctoral stay in Japan at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences. She received her PhD in 2004 in the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) associated with the University of Barcelona School of Medicine.
Her focus of research is the study of how the neuromodulators dopamine and serotonin control neuronal and network activity in the prefrontal cortex. The prefrontal area in the brain is critical for executive control and cognition in general and abnormal function of this region has been implicated in major depression and schizophrenia. She has been studying how dopamine and serotonin, through their numerous receptors, modulate both pyramidal neuron and interneuron activity in the prefrontal cortex.
