Jesse Wood joined the Moghaddam Lab in 2007 and is working toward a PhD in neuroscience as a member of the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh. He graduated with a BS in psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Jesse's dissertation work focuses on how neuronal networks in the VTA and prefrontal cortex flexibly encode dynamic action-outcome relationships. Jesse is particularly interested in how neurons in these regions interact with each other and local field potential oscillations during information processing.
Jesse has worked on a number of projects in the lab. Past research questions include:
1. How do distinct subregions of the prefrontal cortex encode changing action-outcome relationships?
2. What are the nature of VTA neuronal interactions during Pavlovian conditioning?
3. How does the lateral habenula encode information related to the value of environmental stimuli?
4. How do psychotomimetic and GABAergic drugs modulate cortical neurophysiology?
5. How does amphetamine sensitization affect cognitive flexibility?
Publications
Wood, J.T., Kim, Y., Moghaddam, B. Disruption of prefrontal cortex large scale neuronal activity by different classes of psychotomimetic drugs. Journal of Neuroscience, 32(9): 3022-31.
Kim, Y., Wood, J.T., Moghaddam, B. (2012) Coordinated activity of ventral tegmental neurons adapts to appetitive and aversive learning. PLoS One, 7(1).
Kotermanski, S.E., Wood, J.T., Johnson, J.W. (2009) Memantine binding to a superficial site on NMDA receptors contributes to partial trapping. Journal of Physiology, 587(19): 4589-604.
Prus, A.J., Pehrson, A.L., Philibin, S.D., Wood, J.T., Vunck, S.A., Porter, J.H. (2009) The role of M1 muscarinic cholinergic receptors in the discriminative stimulus properties of n-desmethylclozapine and the atypical antipsychotic drug clozapine in rats. Psychopharmacology, 203(2): 295-301.
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