Shelly Flagel

PhD, University of Michgian

Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute

We are a behavioral neuroscience lab focused on understanding both the behavioral and neurobiological factors that contribute to individual differences in reward learning and susceptibility to addiction. We are interested in the psychological mechanisms that underlie and influence appetitive Pavlovian learning and the neural circuitry involved in these processes.

Dr. Flagel is an alumni of the Neuroscience Graduate Program and now an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Research Associate Professor in the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute. She is an Associate Member of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and a Kavli National Academy of Sciences Fellow. Her research focuses on understanding the behavioral and neurobiological factors that contribute to individual differences in reward learning and susceptibility to addiction. She is specifically interested in the psychological mechanisms that underlie and influence appetitive Pavlovian learning and the neural circuitry involved in these processes. You can view her publications via Google Scholar here https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FnUvM1AAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao. Additional information about her lab can be found at: www.flagellab.com.