Photo credit: C.Lüscher
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Meaghan Creed, PhD
Assistant Professor Principle Investigator Faculty Profile: coming soon I began my academic career in Scarborough, Canada at the University of Toronto. While obtaining my HBSc in Neuroscience, I worked as a research technician with Dr. Bill Milgram at CanCog technologies, performing behavioral pharmacology assays in animal models of neurodegenerative disorders. I then moved to the Center for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto.where I studied deep brain stimulation (DBS) applied to the basal ganglia in models of movement disorders. During this graduate training with Dr. José Nobrega, I used a combination of neuroimaging, pharmacology and neurochemical techniques to elucidate mechanisms underlying the therapeutic motor effects vs. adverse psychiatric effects of DBS. For post-doctoral training, I moved to the lab of Dr. Christian Lüscher at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Here, I used optogenetics and electrophysiology to understand how cocaine re-wires the brains' reward circuitry, and developed a novel protocol for DBS that reversed cocaine-evoked synaptic plasticity and abolished maladaptive behavior induced by drug exposure. |