Michelle Lynch

Parvalbumin expression does not account for discrete electrophysiological profiles of glutamatergic ventral pallidal subpopulations

December 30, 2025December 30, 2025

(2024) Addiction Neuroscience Graham RD, Fang LZ, Tooley JR, Kalyanaraman V, Stander MC, Sapkota D, Lynch MR, Dougherty JD, Copits BA, Creed MC. ABSTRACT: The ventral pallidum (VP) has emerged as a critical node in the mesolimbic reward system. Modulating the VP can impact the subjective valuation of rewards, reward motivation, and reward seeking under […]

Synthetically derived cannabis drug relieves pain in miceTranscriptomic landscape of mammalian ventral pallidum at single-cell resolutionSynthetically derived cannabis drug relieves pain in mice

November 20, 2025November 26, 2025

Scientists test a compound that acts on cannabinoid receptors in the peripheral nervous system meant to relieve pain without typical side effects of marijuana usage.

Single cell RNA sequencing reveals a largely conserved transcriptional landscape of the ventral pallidum across rodents and primates (Links to an external site)

December 11, 2024December 12, 2024

Second Year (23-2025) Neuroprep Trainee, Michelle Lynch, presented a poster at the 2024 SfN conference.

The neuroscience of rewards: How the brain calculates pleasure

March 4, 2024March 4, 2024

Visualization of the optogenetic virus in the VP used to activate vArky neurons

A subtype of inhibitory neurons in the mouse brain are activated when consuming a treat to assign value to the reward.