Department Email Address:
pkennedy@psych.ucla.edu
Work Phone Number:
(310) 825-8869
http://www.psych.ucla.edu/faculty/faculty_page?id=212&area=1
Mailing Address:
1285 Franz Hall
CA
Office Address:
8441B Franz Hall
CA
Affiliations |
Assistant Professor, Psychology, Behavioral Neuroscience |
Member, Brain Research Institute, Neuroscience GPB Home Area |
My lab is interested in how motivation and memory interact to produce goal-directed behaviors under both pathological conditions and in situations reflecting natural, biological drives. Our research takes a multi-structure approach to investigate adaptations in cortico-limbic-striatal circuits involved in the cognitive, motivational and behavioral components of drug addiction. The laboratory uses behavioral analyses in rats in combination with in vivo electrophysiology and molecular approaches to explore real-time neuronal coding across brain structures and identify target genes of interest and mechanisms of transcriptional regulation.