Curriculum
Vitae |
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| Biopsychology GraduateStudent email: svmahler@umich.edu |
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| General Research Description My main interests are in the neural bases of motivated behavior and pleasure, the nature and causes of drug dependence, and evolutionary psychology.. |
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| Research Interests |
1) Affective neuroscience
of 'wanting' & 'liking' |
| Current Projects |
| 1) The role of amygdala opioids in natural rewards 2) The role of endocannabinoids in reward |
| Techniques |
| Intracranial microinjection of pharmacologial agents to examine neurochemical systems, ICC methods, behavioral microanalysis, and behavioral testing in "Pavlovian to Instrumental Transfer" (PIT), autoshaping, food intake, sexual behavior, and taste reactivity paradigms. |
