Marcelo Febo
University of Florida, USA
Biography
Marcelo Febo obtained his PhD degree in Physiology & Biophysics at the University of Puerto Rico Medical School. He then went on to conduct Postdoctoral research at the Center for Comparative Neuroimaging in the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. His research is focused in examining the neural circuit level changes with exposure to drugs of abuse. His laboratory utilizes high field functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), functional connectivity analysis, diffusion MRI and in vivo neurophysiological recordings to achieve this goal. He has been funded early in his career by the National Institute on Drug Abuse to examine the relationship between cocaine sensitization and alterations in maternal brain activity. He is presently Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and is Program Director of Translational Research Imaging in the University of Florida McKnight Brain Institute.