EricJNestlerMD

Director, Friedman Brain Institute; Dean for Academic and Scientific Affairs; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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Yale-New Haven Medical CenterResidency, Psychiatry, 1984 - 1987
University of Texas Southwestern Medical CenterResidency, Psychiatry, 1987
Massachusetts General Hospital/McLean HospitalInternship, Transitional Year, 1983 - 1984
Yale School of MedicineClass of 1983

PubMed

129 citations
A novel role of the WNT-dishevelled-GSK3β signaling cascade in the mouse nucleus accumbens in a social defeat model of depression
Matthew Wilkinson, Caroline Dias, Jane Magida, Michelle S. Mazei-Robison, Mary Kay Lobo
The Journal of Neuroscience. 2011-06-22
683 citations
Neurobiology of Resilience
Scott J. Russo, James W. Murrough, Ming-Hu Han, Dennis S. Charney, Eric J. Nestler
Nature Neuroscience. 2012-11-01
368 citations
[Delta]FosB in brain reward circuits mediates resilience to stress and antidepressant responses
Vincent Vialou, Alfred J. Robison, Quincey LaPlant, Herbert E. Covington, David M. Dietz
Nature Neuroscience. 2010-06-01

Journal Articles

The Netrin-1/DCC Guidance Cue Pathway as a Molecular Target in Depression: Translational Evidence
Eric Nestler, MD, Biological Psychiatry
Role of Long Non-Coding RNA Gas5 in Cocaine Action
Eric Nestler, MD, Biological Psychiatry
Effects of the KCNQ Channel Opener Ezogabine on Functional Connectivity of the Ventral Striatum and Clinical Symptoms in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder
Katherine A Collins, Dan V Iosifescu, James W Murrough, Eric J Nestler, Nisha Chadha, Nature
Alpha1 and beta3 Adrenergic Receptor-Mediated Mesolimbic Homeostatic Plasticity Confers Resilience to Social Stress in Susceptible Mice
Eric Nestler, MD, Biological Psychiatry
Methylation in OTX2 and Related Genes, Maltreatment, and Depression in Children
James Hudziak, Joan Kaufman, Eric J Nestler, Joel Gelernter, Robert Althoff, Stewart Mostofsky, Nature
Genome-Wide Transcriptional Profiling of Central Amygdala and Orbitofrontal Cortex During Incubation of Methamphetamine Craving
Eric Nestler, MD, Nature
Cell-Type-Specific Role of ΔFosB in Nucleus Accumbens in Modulating Inter-Male Aggression
Mitra Heshmati, Eric J Nestler, Hossein Aleyasin, The Journal of Neuroscience
Voluntary Wheel Running Promotes Resilience to Chronic Social Defeat Stress in Mice: A Role for Nucleus Accumbens ΔFosB
Eric Nestler, MD, Nature
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The Netrin-1/DCC Guidance Cue Pathway as a Molecular Target in Depression: Translational EvidenceMay 2020
Meeting Report: Can We Make Animal Models of Human Mental Illness?February 2018

New Scientific Evidence Emerges on How Individuals Transition from Recreational to Compulsive Use of DrugsMarch 7th, 2023
Cocaine Use Disorder Linked with Transcriptional Signatures in Brain That Could Help Develop Targeted TreatmentsFebruary 13th, 2023
Cocaine Use Disorder Alters Gene Networks of Neuroinflammation and Neurotransmission in HumansFebruary 6th, 2023
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