Quinlan McGrath - Research Technician

Photo credit: C.Lüscher

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.

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