Eric Nestler

BIOGRAPHY

ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
• Nash Family Professor of Neuroscience, The Mount Sinai Medical Center
• Director, Friedman Brain Institute, The Mount Sinai Medical Center
• Professor, Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, The Mount Sinai Medical Center
• Professor, Psychiatry, The Mount Sinai Medical Center

EDUCATION:
• MD, Yale University School of Medicine
• PhD, Yale University
• Residency, Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine
• Internship, Medicine/Psychiatry, Mclean Hospital
• Fellowship, Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine
• Fellowship, Pharmacology, Yale University School of Medicine

AWARDS:
• 2008 Goldman-Rakic Award NARSAD
• 2005 American Academy of Arts and Science
• 1998 Institute of Medicine

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The goal of the laboratory of molecular psychiatry research is to better understand the ways in which the brain responds to repeated perturbations, under normal and pathological conditions. A major focus of the research is drug addiction: to identify molecular changes that drugs of abuse produce in the brain to cause addiction, and to characterize the genetic and environmental factors that determine individual differences in the ability of the drugs to produce these change. Similar work is underway in the areas of depression and stress.

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