He Li

He Li

Department of Psychiatry and Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, USA

Biography
Dr. He Li has completed his PhD from McGill University in 1994 and postdoctoral studies from NIH in 1998. He is the Director, Stress, Behavioral Studies and Neurobiology Laboratory. His laboratory has been working to discover novel therapeutic targets for treating neuronal disorders including epilepsy, traumatic brain injury as well as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by studying the neurotransmitter systems in the amygdalaneuronal circuitry in the invitro brain slice and in vivo animal behaviors. He has published 69 peer reviewed articles, book chapters including Nature Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, Neuropsychopharmacology, Molecular Psychiatry and Journal of Psychiatry Research.