Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Biopsychology GraduateStudent

email: jocelyri@umich.edu

General Research Description:
I am primarily interested in the neural mechanisms of emotion and motivation, both positive and negative. Additionally, I am interested in implications for drug addiction, eating disorders, and other psychopathology.

Current Projects:
Role of accumbens glutamate receptors in positively and negatively motivated behaviors. Interactions of accumbens with orbital and medial PFC in generation of motivation and environmental modulation. Functions of metabotropic glutamate receptors in reward
Techniques:
Intracranial drug microinjection, stereotaxic and oral cannulae surgery, food intake and taste reactivity testing and analysis, histology