Eric J. Nestler

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Eric Jonathan Nestler (born July 8, 1954 ) is a neuroscientist , pharmacologist and psychiatrist . He is Dean of Academic and Scientific Affairs at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and Director of the Friedman Brain Institute there .

Nestler earned a Ph.D. from Yale University in New Haven , Connecticut . and an MD , the latter as a medical degree. He completed his specialist training as a psychiatrist and pharmacologist at McLean Hospital in Belmont (near Boston , Massachusetts ) and the hospitals of Yale University. Before joining the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, he was a professor at Yale University from 1987 to 2000 and at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas , Texas from 2000 to 2008 . In 1987 he became a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ).

Nestler studies the molecular basis of addiction and depression . Using animal models , he identifies mechanisms through which the use of addictive substances or stress (including social defeat , such as "social defeat") change the brain and lead to symptoms of addiction and depression. The main focus is on changes in transcription , gene expression and chromatin structure (in the sense of epigenetic changes) in the reward structures of the brain, such as the mesolimbic system .

Eric Nestler has been a member of the Institute of Medicine since 1998, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2003, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2005 . He received the Pasarow Foundation Award for Neuropsychiatric Research in 1998 , a Bristol-Myers Squibb Award in 2004 , the Neuronal Plasticity Prize of the Fondation Ipsen in 2008 , the Sarnat Prize of the National Academy of Medicine in 2010 and the Anna-Monika Prize of Anna for 2010/2011 -Monika Foundation . In 2011 he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University in Sweden .

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  1. ↑ Eric Nestler, MD, Ph.D. - Center for BrainHealth. (No longer available online.) In: brainhealth.utdallas.edu. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on June 24, 2017 .
  2. ^ Past Fellows. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, accessed July 25, 2019 .
  3. ^ Nestler, Eric. In: aaas.org. February 24, 2017, accessed June 24, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter N. (PDF; 283 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved September 3, 2019 .
  5. ↑ a b c Eric J. Nestler, MD, PhD - Director, BERG. (No longer available online.) In: berghealth.com. August 5, 2016, archived from the original on January 4, 2017 ; accessed on June 24, 2017 (English).
  6. ^ Neurosciences. (No longer available online.) In: fondation-ipsen.org. April 22, 2016, archived from the original on July 21, 2017 ; accessed on June 24, 2017 (English).
  7. ↑ Neuronal Plasticity - Fondation IPSEN Symposium 2008 ( Memento from March 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, 1.2 MB).
  8. ^ The Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health - National Academy of Medicine. In: nam.edu. Retrieved June 24, 2017 .
  9. ^ Award Winners - Anna Monika Foundation. In: anna-monika-stiftung.de. Retrieved June 24, 2017 .
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SURNAME Nestler, Eric J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nestler, Eric Jonathan (full name); Nestler, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Neuroscientist, pharmacologist and psychiatrist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1954