Ann M. Graybiel, Ph.D.
Distinguished Investigator

Ann M. Graybiel is the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Neuroscience and Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research, at M.I.T. She was trained at Harvard (AB) and MIT and received her PhD from MIT in 1971 and she has been on the faculty of MIT since then. On the basis of her work, Graybiel was elected to the National Academy of Sciences of the USA in 1988, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991, and the Institute of Medicine of the USA in 1994. She was awarded the National Medal of Science of the USA in 2002. Research being funded by the NARSAD 2007 Distinguished Investigator Award is focused on analyzing neural circuits that interconnect in neocortex and basal ganglia and that have been implicated in neuropsychiatric disorders including depression and also in addiction. The study will analyze genes related to calcium signaling in these circuits to discover how their regulation influences behavioral control.

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