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Azevedo photo Charles Blaha
Professor, Director of Experimental Program

Experimental (Behavioral Neuroscience)
Psychology Building, Room 416
901.678.1560 (telephone)
901.678.2579 (fax)
cblaha@mail.psyc.memphis.edu
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Education

Ph.D., University of Oregon
B.A., University of California, Santa Barbara

Research Interests
  • Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders
  • Drug Addiction Research Using State-of-the-Art in vivo Electrochemical and Microdialysis Recording Techniques
  • Systems Neuroscience Approach to Understanding the Neurobiological Bases of Incentive-motivated Behaviors
Recent Publications
  • Lee, K.H., Kristicm K., van Hoff, R., Hitti, F.L., Blaha, C.D., Harris, B., Roberts, D.W. and Leiter, J.C. (2007). High frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus increases glutamate in the subthalamic nucleus of rats as demonstrated by in vivo enzyme-linked glutamate sensor.  Brain Research, 1162:121-129.
  • Lee, K.H., Blaha, C.D., Cooper, S., Hitti, F.L., Leiter, J.C., Roberts, D.W. and Kirn, U. (2006). Dopamine efflux in the rat striatum evoked by electrical stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus: potential mechanism of action in Parkinson's disease, European Journal of Neuroscience, 23:1005-1014.
  • Leck, K.J., Blaha, C.D., Matthaei, K.L, Forster, G.L., Holgate, J. and Hendry, I.A. (2006). Gz proteins are functionally coupled to dopamine D2-like receptors in vivo, Neuropharmacology, 51:597-605.
  • Dommett, E., Coizet, V., Blaha, C.D., Martindale, J., Lefebvre, V., Walton, N., Mayhew, J.E.W., Overton, P.G. and Redgrave, P. (2005). How visual stimuli activate dopaminergic neurons at short-latency, Science, 307:1476-1479
Roger Azevedo
Jeffrey S. Berman
Charles D. Blaha
Robert Cohen
Melloni Cook
Rick Dale
William O. Dwyer
Thomas K. Fagan
Randy Floyd
J. Barry Gholson
Arthur C. Graesser
David A. Houston
Xiangen Hu
Katherine M. Kitzmann
Roger J. Kreuz
Ron Landis
Frank C. Leeming
Heidi M. Levitt
Charles J. Long
Max M. Louwerse
Michael B. Lupfer
Meghan McDevitt-Murphy
Danielle S. McNamara
Beth Meisinger
Andrew W. Meyers
Guy Mittleman
Sam B. Morgan
James G. Murphy
Robert A. Neimeyer
Theresa Okwumabua
Andrew Olney
Gilbert Parra
Leslie A. Robinson
James P. Whelan
Willam H. Zachry

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