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Hitoshi Morikawa is an associate professor at the Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, at The University of Texas at Austin. He earned his M.D. from Kyoto University in Japan and completed his residency in Anesthesiology at Kyoto University Hospital. He then pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in Neuropharmacology at the Vollum Institute of Oregon Health & Science University. His research focuses on the cellular mechanisms that underlie tolerance to opioids and the brain circuits involved in the euphoric effects of drugs of abuse. Morikawa joined the faculty in 2002, where he investigates synaptic plasticity and neuroadaptations that contribute to reward-based conditioning and the development of addictive behaviors. He is affiliated with the Society for Neuroscience and the Research Society on Alcoholism.
Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research, The University of Texas at Austin • Austin, TX
Focuses on synaptic plasticity and functional neuroadaptations associated with reward and addiction.
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