Dinesh Pal
Department:
Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience
Biography/Resume:
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Associate Professor of Molecular & Integrative Physiology
Areas of interest: Consciousness, Sleep, Anesthesia, Psychedelics
We study the mechanistic interactions between sedative-hypnotics and sleep homeostasis, and the cortical control of arousal states. In the ongoing studies, we combine electroencephalographic recordings and tools from computational neuroscience with pharmacological, molecular, and chemogenetic approaches