Gregory O. Hjelmstad
Staff Research Investigator, Gallo
Center
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Neurology, UCSF
Associate Member, UCSF/UCB Joint Bioengineering
Program
Phone: (510) 985-3927
Email: gregh@gallo.ucsf.edu
Research
Dr. Hjelmstad's research is focused on understanding
the neural circuits that underlie motivation and
goal-directed behavior, and how these circuits are
altered with drug addiction. The ventral tegmental
area and the nucleus accumbens are two brain regions
that have been shown to be critically involved in the
rewarding properties of many drugs of abuse. Dr.
Hjelmstad is using a combination of fluorescent
tracing, electrophysiology, optogenetics, and histology
to determine the connectivity and properties of
synaptic transmission on specific subpopulations of
neurons in these regions.
Publications
Gregory O. Hjelmstad's
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