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Gonzalo A. Carrasco

Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Cooper Medical School of Rowan University

Disciplines

  • Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience
  • Pharmacology
  • Medical Pharmacology

Research Interests

  • identifying fundamental biochemical and cellular mechanisms regulating serotonin and dopamine receptor signaling in the brain by drugs of abuse and its implications for the treatment of neuropsychiatric and substance abuse disorders
  • effects of cannabinoids (marijuana-like compounds) & cocaine on serotonin and dopamine neurotransmission

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  1. Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
  2. Faculty Member

Discipline

    1. Medicine and Health Sciences 10
    2. Neurosciences 6
    3. Medical Pharmacology 6
    4. Medical Education 4
    5. Biochemistry 4

Research Interest

    1. medical education 2
    2. ARDS 1
    3. Anesthesiology 1
    4. Arteriovenous Malformations 1
    5. B lymphocytes 1
    1. Brain Aneurysms 1
    2. Cancer therapeutics, Cancer prevention, Tumor microenvironment, Inflammtory Signaling Pathways 1
    3. Case Reports 1
    4. Cerebrovascular Disease 1
    5. Cold shock 1
    6. Critial care medicine 1
    7. Current projects involve genetic mouse models of epilepsy, opioid addiction and neurodevelopmental disorders such as Rett Syndrome 1
    8. DNA alterations in the brain of individuals with schizophrenia and another to study similar genetic alterations in individuals with cocaine addiction 1
    9. Effect of chronic heart rate reduction on cardiac remodeling and fibrosis after myocardial infarction 1
    10. Endocrinology 1
    11. Exercise and wellness 1
    12. Gastroenenterology 1
    13. Hemorrhagic Stroke 1
    14. Ischemic Stroke 1
    15. Medical education 1
    16. Microbiology 1
    17. Neurodevelopment 1
    18. Neuropsychiatric illness 1
    19. Novel therapeutic strategies to ameliorate systolic and diastolic heart failure 1
    20. Osteoarthritis 1
    21. Patient Safety 1
    22. Physiology 1
    23. Point of care ultrasound 1
    24. Post-myocardial infarction cardiac repair mechanism 1
    25. Quality Improvement 1
    26. RNA chaperones 1
    27. Regenerative Medicine 1
    28. Regulation of sensory neuron function 1
    29. Regulation of the sympathoadrenal stress response 1
    30. Residents' training 1
    31. Sex-based differences in cardiac aging 1
    32. Stress and burnout in medical students 1
    33. Systems Biology 1
    34. Toxin-antitoxin 1
    35. active learning 1
    36. anatomy, molecular biology and movement sciences 1
    37. autism spectrum disorder 1
    38. autoimmunity 1
    39. autonomic nervous system 1
    40. autophagy 1
    41. biochemical changes in extracellular proteoglycan and relevance to spina bifida 1
    42. cancer-cachexia 1
    43. cardiogenic shock 1
    44. cardiorespiratory physiology 1
    45. caregiver training 1

Organization

    1. Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
    2. College of Humanities & Social Sciences 1
    3. Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering 1
    4. Critical Care Medicine 1
    5. College of Science & Mathematics 1

Position

    1. Faculty Member