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Meenakshi Alreja, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience

Additional Titles

Director, Minority Recruitment, Psychiatry Department

Director, Postdoctoral Affairs, Psychiatry Department

About

Titles

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and of Neuroscience

Director, Minority Recruitment, Psychiatry Department; Director, Postdoctoral Affairs, Psychiatry Department

Appointments

Education & Training

PhD
Delhi University (1987)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yale University

Research

Overview

A major focus of the Alreja lab is to study brain circuits involved in learning and memory mechanisms. Studies focus on cellular mechanisms operating in septohippocampal and prefrontal cortical circuits; these circuits are implicated in cognitive deficits that are a hallmark of neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Lewy body dementia and mental disorders such as Schizophrenia. A second major focus of the lab is to study the neuroendocrinology of puberty and reproduction.

The two lines of research are intended to provide novel insights into mechanisms underlying developmental disorders such as schizophrenia that often have an onset around puberty. The lab uses various lines of transgenic mice to prepare brain slices for electrophysiological and neuropharmacological studies that are used in conjunction with anatomical and molecular approaches.

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Acetylcholine; Electrophysiology; Glutamates; Interneurons; Kisspeptins; Memory; Neurobiology; Nicotine; Prefrontal Cortex; Psychiatry; Puberty; Signal Transduction

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Meenakshi Alreja's published research.

Publications

2009

2008

2007

2006

2004

Get In Touch

Contacts

Academic Office Number
Mailing Address

Psychiatry

Ribicoff Research Facilities, 34 Park St

New Haven, CT 06508

United States