Background pattern of a brain with neural connections
Abigail Polter

Abigail Polter

Co-PI (Core Leadership)

George Washington University

Abby is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology at George Washington University. She studied the role of intracellular signaling cascades in mood regulation as a graduate student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and uncovered novel stress-induced regulation of dopaminergic systems by kappa opioid receptors as a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University.

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Glutamate signaling Optogenetics Viral vectors Cognitive decline Neurotransmitters Synaptic transmission PD heterogeneity: circuit biology

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