Marina Picciotto PhD
Charles B. G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Neurobiology and of Pharmacology; Assistant Chair for Basic Science Research, Dept. of Psychiatry
Departments & Organizations
Affiliated Faculty
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Neuroscience | Molecular Medicine, Pharmacology, and Physiology
Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program
Neurobiology: Kavli Institute for Neuroscience
Pharmacology: Neuropharmacology
Psychiatry: Connecticut Mental Health Center | Molecular Psychiatry | CENTURY | Yale Translational Center to Develop Gender-Sensitive Treatment for Tobacco Dependence
Research Interests
Neuroscience; Molecular basis of behavior; Intracellular signaling; Mouse genetic models more...
Education
- B.S., Stanford University, 1985
- Ph.D., Rockefeller University, 1992
Selected Publications
- Horst, N.K., Heath, C.J., Neugebauer, N.M., Kimchi, E.Y., Laubach, M. and Picciotto, M.R. (2012) Impaired auditory discrimination following perinatal nicotine exposure or ß2 nAChR subunit deletion, Behavioural Brain Research, 231(1):170-80.
- Mineur, Y.S., Abizaid, A., Rao, Y., Salas, R., DiLeone, R.J., Gündisch, D., Diano, S., De Biasi, M., Horvath, T.L., Gao, X.-B. and Picciotto, M.R. (2011) Nicotine decreases food intake through activation of POMC neurons, Science, 332(6035): 1330-2.
- Lori, A., Tang, Y., O’Malley, S., Picciotto, M.R., Wu, R. and Cubells, J.F. (2011) The galanin receptor 1 (GalR1) gene associates with tobacco craving in smokers seeking cessation treatment, Neuropsychopharmacology, 36(7):1412-20.
