2014 NARSAD Young investigator grantees - Next generation therapies (Depression)

Will seek to identify how ketamine, a rapid-acting, still experimental antidepressant, impacts the hippocampus in mice models of depression. Her lab has developed a transgenic mouse that can permanently label neurons activated by a particular experience to reveal how hippocampal function is impaired in depression and how ketamine affects hippocampal circuits to alleviate depressive-like symptoms in the mice.