Michael B Leventhal
About Me
Mike is a Neuroscience PhD Candidate in the Morishita lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying social behavior and how social experience influences brain development. His work has led to an NIH fellowship grant, presentations at major conferences, and a co-authored paper in Nature Neuroscience. Before coming to Mount Sinai, Mike graduated summa cum laude from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a B.S. in Molecular & Cellular Biology and Psychology, and he spent two years as a Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health.
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Research Topics
Autism, Biomedical Sciences, Brain, Cerebral Cortex, Cognitive Neuroscience, Depression, Developmental Neurobiology, Electrophysiology, GABA, Knockout Mice, Memory, Neural Networks, Neurobiology, Neuropeptides, Neurophysiology, Neuroscience, Neurotransmitters, Prefrontal Cortex, Psychiatry, Schizophrenia, Synapses, Synaptic Plasticity, Systems Neuroscience, Thalamus, Transgenic Mice
Multi-Disciplinary Training Areas
Neuroscience [NEU]
About Me
Mike is a Neuroscience PhD Candidate in the Morishita lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. His research focuses on the neural mechanisms underlying social behavior and how social experience influences brain development. His work has led to an NIH fellowship grant, presentations at major conferences, and a co-authored paper in Nature Neuroscience. Before coming to Mount Sinai, Mike graduated summa cum laude from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a B.S. in Molecular & Cellular Biology and Psychology, and he spent two years as a Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health.
Language
Research Topics
Autism, Biomedical Sciences, Brain, Cerebral Cortex, Cognitive Neuroscience, Depression, Developmental Neurobiology, Electrophysiology, GABA, Knockout Mice, Memory, Neural Networks, Neurobiology, Neuropeptides, Neurophysiology, Neuroscience, Neurotransmitters, Prefrontal Cortex, Psychiatry, Schizophrenia, Synapses, Synaptic Plasticity, Systems Neuroscience, Thalamus, Transgenic Mice
Multi-Disciplinary Training Areas
Neuroscience [NEU]
