Lindsey O'Lalde

The (RAD) Lab uses animal models to study motivational brain circuits on a systems level. In order to better understand how these neural circuits function in a healthy state as well as to uncover adaptations that contribute to maladaptive behaviors such as addiction, we study inflexible and compulsive reward-seeking behaviors in mice. We employ both pharmacological and genetic approaches to manipulate and uncover the neural circuits responsible for these behaviors.