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Prof. Steven E. Hyman


IAN

Affiliation

Harvard University, Harvard Medical School

Address

Provost's Office, Massachusetts Hall ,
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138

Telephone

617-496-5100

Fax

617-495-8550

Email

steven_hyman@harvard.edu

Research Interest:

  • mood disorders

  • addictive disorders

Major Publications

   
  • Berke, J and Hyman, SE. Addiction, dopamine, and the molecular mechanisms of memory.  Neuron 25:515-532, 2000.

  • Hyman SE and Malenka RC.  Addiction and the brain:  The neurobiology of compulsion and its persistence.  Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2:695-703, 2001.

  • Berke JD, Sgambato V, Zhu P-P, Lavoie B, Vincent M, Krause M, Hyman SE. (2001)  Dopamine and glutamate induce distinct striatal splice forms of ania-6, an RNA polymerase II-associated cyclin.  Neuron 32:1-20, 2001.

  • Makris N, Gasic GP, Seidman LJ, Goldstein JM, Gastfriend DR, Elman I, Albaugh MD, Hodge SM, Ziegler DA, Sheahan FS, Caviness VS Jr, Tsuang MT, Kennedy DN, Hyman SE, Rosen BR, Breiter HC. Decreased absolute amygdala volume in cocaine addicts. Neuron. 2004 Nov 18;44(4):729-40

  • Voulalas PJ, Holtzclaw L, Wolstenholme J, Russell JT, Hyman SE.  Metabotropic glutamate receptors and dopamine receptors cooperate to enhance extracellular signal-regulated kinase phosphorylation in striatal neurons. J Neurosci. 2005;25(15):3763-73.

  • Hyman SE, Malenka RC, Nestler EJ. Neural Mechanisms of Addiction: The role of reward-related learning and memory. Annu Rev Neurosci. 29:565-598, 2006