Andrew Papale PhD

I received a BS in Physics from Juniata College in 2008 and a PhD in Neuroscience from the University of Minnesota in 2015. For my thesis, I studied deliberations of rats on a neuroeconomic decision task called the spatial delay discounting task and how their choices impacted the firing of neurons in the dorsal hippocampus. Since then, I've worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at the University of Pittsburgh for Mac Hooks and Nathan Urban. My research in the Dombrovski lab focuses on the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) and its interactions with hippocampus. I am currently analyzing fMRI from the clock task, developed by Michael Frank, using a novel deconvolution technique developed jointly by Michael Hallquist and Alexandre Dombrovski.