Marguerite Matthews is a doctoral student in the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh. She received her BS in biochemistry in 2005 from Spelman College.
Marguerite’s research in the Moghaddam Lab focuses on using rodent models to characterize dopamine systems in behaviorally relevant contexts during the adolescent period. She has been a part of the lab since 2007.
Bondi, C., Matthews, M., Moghaddam, B. Glutamatergic animal models of schizophrenia. Current Pharmaceutical Design, in press.
Kim, Y.B., Matthews, M., Moghaddam, B.(2010) Putative GABA neurons in the VTA have a similar pattern of plasticity as dopamine neurons during appetitive and aversive learning. European Journal of Neuroscience, 32(9):1564-1572.
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