Gabrielle Magalhães Ulloa Awarded NIH T32 Grant
With funding from NIH’s T32 grant, Gabrielle Magalhães Ulloa will continue her work studying the prelimbic system’s role in affective learning and decision making in adolescent rodents. While the role of the prefrontal cortex has been established by prior research, Gabrielle hopes to examine adolescent rodents specifically in order to better understand age differences in decision making.
To do so, Gabrielle will work with Assistant Professor Heidi Meyer, using fiber photometry to examine Parvalbumin-positive neurons.
Gabrielle believes these neurons hold the key to understanding the differences in adult and adolescent rodent decision making.
This research fits into Gabrielle’s larger interest in understanding affective learning and trauma response in humans. Gabrielle is working to make these rodent models translatable to human clinical studies.
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