- PhD, Neuroscience, University of Michigan
- Post-doctoral Fellowship, Neuroscience, Yale University
- Post-doctoral Fellowship, Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina
Education & Training
Awards
Hamilton Family Award for Basic Neuroscience Research in Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Representative Publications
- Rich MT, Huang YH, Torregrossa MM. Caclineurin promotes neuroplastic changes in the amygdala associated with weakened cocaine-cue memories. J Neurosci. 2020, 40:1344-1354.
- Rich MT, Huang YH, Torregrossa MM. Plasticity at thalamo-amygdala synapses regulates cocaine-cue memory formation and extinction. Cell Rep. 2019, 26:1010-1020.
- Bertholomey ML, Stone K, Lam TT, Bang S, Wu W, Nairn AC, Taylor JR, Torregrossa MM. Phosphoproteomic analysis of the amygdala response to adolescent glucocorticoid exposure reveals G-protein coupled receptor kinase 2 as a target for reducing motivation for alcohol. Proteomes. 2018, 6:41.
- Kirschmann EK, Pollock M, Nagarajan V, Torregrossa MM. Effects of adolescent cannabinoid self-administration in rats on addiction-related behaviors and working memory. Neuropsychopharmacol. 2017, 42: 989-1000.
- Rich MT, Abbott TB, Chung L, Gulcicek EE, Stone KL, Colangelo CM, Nairn AC, Taylor JR, Torregrossa MM. Phosphoproteomic analysis reveals a novel mechanism of CaMKIIa regulation inversely induced by cocaine memory extinction versus reconsolidation. J Neurosci. 2016, 36:7613-7627.
Research Interests
- Addiction
- Learning and memory processes
- Adolescent drug exposure long term effects