Daniel McGehee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care Director, McGehee LabDepartment of Anesthesia & Critical Care
Biographical Info
Research Interest
Nicotinic receptors in brain reward/aversion circuitry and in pain modulation.
Honors and Awards
Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities (1985)
Glaxo Graduate Student Scholarship (1987 – 91)
Individual NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship NIH (1992 – 95)
Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of Chicago (2016)
Featured Publications
- Nicotine aversion is mediated by GABAergic interpeduncular nucleus inputs to laterodorsal tegmentum
- Nicotinic modulation of descending pain control circuitry
- Sensitizing exposure to amphetamine increases AMPA receptor phosphorylation without increasing cell surface expression in the rat nucleus accumbens
- Tolerance to Ethanol or Nicotine Results in Increased Ethanol Self-Administration and Long-Term Depression in the Dorsolateral Striatum
- Ethanol-Induced Motor Impairment Mediated by Inhibition of α7 Nicotinic Receptors
- Chronic Nicotine Mitigates Aberrant Inhibitory Motor Learning Induced by Motor Experience under Dopamine Deficiency
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Training
- Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Categories: Senior Fellow
