Suzanne O. Nolan, Ph.D.
2024 Young Investigator Grant
Suzanne O. Nolan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Siciliano Lab
Vanderbilt University
Suzanne received her Ph.D. in 2019 from Baylor University in the department of Psychology and Neuroscience, where she worked on understanding the influence of early-life factors, such as diet and seizure exposure, on the development of autistic-like behaviors in monogenic models of autism spectrum disorders. Suzanne joined Vanderbilt University in July of 2019, where she is focused on understanding how presynaptic and postsynaptic adaptations to the mesolimbic dopamine pathway underlie contingency learning.
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