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Dr. Robert C. Malenka is the Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director of the Nancy Pritzker Laboratory and Deputy Director of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. After graduating from Harvard College he received an M.D. and a Ph.D. in neuroscience in 1983 from Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Robert C. Malenka is the Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director of the Nancy Pritzker Laboratory and Deputy Director of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. After graduating from Harvard College he received an M.D. and a Ph.D. in neuroscience in 1983 from Stanford University School of Medicine.
Robert C. Malenka (born June 21, 1955) is a Nancy Friend Pritzker Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is also the director of the Nancy Friend Pritzker Laboratory in the Stanford Medical Center. [1]
- Harvard University, Stanford University
- Perl-UNC Prize (2005)
malenka@stanford.edu. (650) 724-2730. Dr. Robert C. Malenka is the Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director of the Nancy Pritzker Laboratory and Deputy Director of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. After graduating from Harvard College he received an M.D. and a Ph.D. in neuroscience in 1983 from Stanford University ...
- In the 1980s and 1990s you did groundbreaking research on a phenomenon called “synaptic plasticity.” What’s synaptic plasticity, and what role does it play in human learning, memory, behavior and habit formation?
- In the 2000s and 2010s you started studying pathways in the brain collectively called the reward system. What’s that, what’s its evolutionary purpose and how does it lead us astray?
- Do other psychiatric disorders besides addiction involve glitches in the brain’s reward system?
- Most recently, you’ve been exploring the therapeutic potential of certain psychedelic drugs that are banned because of their addictive or other worrisome properties.
Dr. Robert C. Malenka is the Pritzker Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director of the Nancy Pritzker Laboratory and Deputy Director of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. After graduating from Harvard College he received an M.D. and a Ph.D. in neuroscience in 1983 from Stanford University School of Medicine.
2012. An essential role for postsynaptic calmodulin and protein kinase activity in long-term potentiation. RC Malenka, JA Kauer, DJ Perkel, MD Mauk, PT Kelly, RA Nicoll, ... Nature 340 (6234), 554-557.
