Epernicus: Vicky Puig, Ph.D.

Vicky Puig, Ph.D.

Position:
Post Doctoral Fellow

Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Picower Institute for Learning and Memory

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
Advisor:
Earl K. Miller
Degrees:

Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)

B.Sc., Biochemistry, University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
Past Advisors:

Yasuo Kawaguchi (as Post Doctoral Fellow)

Francesc Artigas (as Graduate Student - Ph.D.)
Research:
I am very interested in how dopamine and serotonin modulate prefrontal cortex-striatal loops during learning and memory
Honors:
2005-2008 Human Frontiers Postdoctoral Fellow

2005 Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellow

1999-2004 IDIBAPS predoctoral Fellow

Communities:

Vicky Puig's Genealogy

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Vicky Puig's Publications (11)

Serotonin modulates synchronous activity in the prefrontal cortex through 5-HT1A and 5-HT2A receptors
Vicky Puig, Akiya Watakabe, Mika Ushimaru, Tetsuo Yamamori, Yasuo Kawaguchi

Sumitted. 2009
Two distinct activity patterns of fast-spiking interneurons during neocortical UP states.
Puig MV, Ushimaru M, Kawaguchi Y

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2008 Jun 12
The Hallucinogen DOI Reduces Low-Frequency Oscillations in Rat Prefrontal Cortex: Reversal by Antipsychotic Drugs.
Celada P, Puig MV, Díaz-Mataix L, Artigas F

Biological psychiatry. 2008 Apr 22
Modulation of the activity of pyramidal neurons in rat prefrontal cortex by raphe stimulation in vivo: involvement of serotonin and GABA.
Puig MV, Artigas F, Celada P

Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991). 2005 Jan;15(1):1-14
In vivo excitation of GABA interneurons in the medial prefrontal cortex through 5-HT3 receptors.
Puig MV, Santana N, Celada P, Mengod G, Artigas F

Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991). 2004 Dec;14(12):1365-75
Co-expression and in vivo interaction of serotonin1A and serotonin2A receptors in pyramidal neurons of prefrontal cortex.
Amargós-Bosch M, Bortolozzi A, Puig MV, Serrats J, Adell A, Celada P, Toth M, Mengod G, Artigas F

Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991). 2004 Mar;14(3):281-99
[Serotonergic control of prefrontal cortex]
Puig MV, Celada P, Artigas F

Revista de neurologia. 2004 Sep 16-30;39(6):539-47
In vivo modulation of the activity of pyramidal neurons in the rat medial prefrontal cortex by 5-HT2A receptors: relationship to thalamocortical afferents.
Puig MV, Celada P, Díaz-Mataix L, Artigas F

Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991). 2003 Aug;13(8):870-82
Control of the serotonergic system by the medial prefrontal cortex: potential role in the etiology of PTSD and depressive disorders.
Celada P, Puig MV, Martín-Ruiz R, Casanovas JM, Artigas F

Neurotoxicity research. 2002 Aug-Sep;4(5-6):409-419
Control of dorsal raphe serotonergic neurons by the medial prefrontal cortex: Involvement of serotonin-1A, GABA(A), and glutamate receptors.
Celada P, Puig MV, Casanovas JM, Guillazo G, Artigas F

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2001 Dec 15;21(24):9917-29
Control of serotonergic function in medial prefrontal cortex by serotonin-2A receptors through a glutamate-dependent mechanism.
Martín-Ruiz R, Puig MV, Celada P, Shapiro DA, Roth BL, Mengod G, Artigas F

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. 2001 Dec 15;21(24):9856-66

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Vicky Puig, Ph.D.

Post Doctoral Fellow

I am very interested in how dopamine and serotonin modulate prefrontal cortex-striatal loops during learning and memory

Vicky Puig's Genealogy

Vicky Puig's Publications (11)