David Wirtshafter, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychology
Integrative Systems, Cognition/Learning
Neural basis of motivated behavior; structure and function of the basal ganglia; immediate-early gene expression.
Selected references
- Wirtshafter, D. Rotation and Fos expression following treatment with the atypical D1 dopamine agonist SKF 83822. Pharmacol., Biochem. Behav., 2007;86:505-510.
- Stratford, T.R. & Wirtshafter, D. NPY mediates the feeding elicited by muscimol injections into the nucleus accumbens shell. NeuroReport, 2004;15:959-965.
- Wirtshafter, D. The control of ingestive behavior by the median raphe nucleus. Appetite, 2000; 36: 99-105.