Peter Zhukovsky
University of Cambridge, UK
Biography
Peter Zhukovsky specializes in neurobiology of compulsive disorders, with a focus on rodent models of psychostimulant addiction. His aims are two fold; firstly, to help identify vulnerability for drug abuse and thus help prevent it and secondly, to elucidate its key neural mechanisms to help fi nd treatments, both pharmacologicalmand behavioral. Using a recently developed rodent task measuring an aspect of cognitive flexibility, he combines a longitudinal approach with an ecologically valid self-administration paradigm to elucidate neural mechanisms of psycho stimulant addiction.