philip-vieira

pvieira@csudh.edu

EDUCATION:

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Behavioral Neurosciences, neuroplasticity, addiction, pharmacokinetics.

Human behavior ultimately derives from changes within the brain.  The broader scope of my research is to understand how neurobiology supports these changes. I currently study the role drugs of abuse play in exploiting the brain’s adaptive framework to produce maladaptive (addiction) behavior. I am also interested in the individual differences that interact with the environment to create the conditions that support drug addiction. These include epigenetics, endocrinology and drug metabolism. To that end, I am also involved in work that has developed next generation biosensors to detect real-time changes in individual drug kinetics and dynamics.

Any students interested in becoming a research assistant in the lab can fill out an application here (https://forms.gle/ZuBQyCWXUTRh3B5m7)


REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS:

Vieira, P.A., Shin, C., Arroyo-Currás, N., Ortega, G., Li, W., Keller, A.A., Plaxco, K.W. & Kippin, T. E. (2019). Ultra-high-precision, in-vivo pharmacokinetic measurements highlight the need for and a route towards more highly personalized medicine. Frontiers in molecular biosciences, 6, 69.

Ploense, K. L., Vieira, P. A., Bubalo, L., Olivarria, G., Carr, A. E., Szumlinski, K. K., & Kippin, T. E. (2018). Contributions of prolonged contingent and non-contingent cocaine exposure to escalation of cocaine intake and glutamatergic gene expression. Psychopharmacology, 235(5), 1347-1359.

Arroyo-Currás, N., Somerson, J., Vieira, P. A., Ploense, K. L., Kippin, T. E., & Plaxco, K. W. (2017). Real-time measurement of small molecules directly in awake, ambulatory animals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(4), 645-650.