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Omar Ahmed is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Michigan, specializing in Neuroscience and Biomedical Engineering. He obtained his B.Sc. and Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Brown University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Neurology at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on understanding behavioral neural circuits and their role in various neurological disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and epilepsy. Through the Ahmed lab, he studies the mechanisms of psychedelic drugs and their potential therapeutic targets for modifying memory circuits in the brain. His work employs transgenic rodent models to investigate how specific neural circuits are affected by these disorders, aiming to discover novel interventions for patients. The lab emphasizes the role of sleep in memory consolidation and how disruptions can lead to cognitive impairments in diseases like Alzheimer's.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science