George Kevork Aghajanian, MD
Professor Emeritus of and Senior Research Scientist in Psychiatry
Departments & Organizations
Research Interests
Neurotransmission; antipsychotics; antidepressants; hallucinogens; opiates more...
Education
- M.D., Yale University, 1958
Selected Publications
- Liu, R-J. and Aghajanian, G.K. Stress blunts serotonin- and hypocretin-evoked EPSCs in prefrontal cortex: role of corticosterone-mediated apical dendritic atrophy. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 105:359-64, 2008.
- Aghajanian, G.K. Modeling psychosis in vitro by inducing disordered network activity in cortical brain slices. Psychopharmacology 2009, epub ahead of print.
