Corey Baimel
Assistant Professor
Email: corey.baimel@dal.ca
Mailing Address:
Department of Pharmacology
Sir Charles Tupper Medical Building
1-C1, 5850 College St, PO Box 15000
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2
Research Topics:- Motivated behaviours
- Neural Circuits
- Synaptic connectivity
- Synaptic plasticity
- Neuromodulation
- Neuropharmacology
Education:
- BSc (McGill University)
- PhD (University of British Columbia)
- PDF (New York University)
Research Interests:
The Baimel Lab aims to understand the neural circuits that promote adaptive motivated behaviours. We use a combination of neuroanatomical tools, slice electrophysiology, optogenetics, fiber photometry and behaviour to examine synaptic connectivity, plasticity and neuromodulation of neural circuits that guide reward seeking.
Select Publications:
- Naef L, Seabrook L Baimel C, Judge AK, Kenney T, Ellis M, Qiao M, Floresco SB, Borgland SL (2023). Disinhibition of the orbitofrontal cortex biases goal-directed behaviour in obesity. Nature Neuroscience. 26(1):92-106.
- Baimel C, Jang E, Scudder SL, Manoocheri K, Carter AG (2022). Hippocampal-evoked inhibition of cholinergic interneurons in the nucleus accumbens. Cell Reports, 40(1):111042.
- Baimel C, McGarry LM, Carter AG (2019). The projection targets of medium spiny neurons govern cocaine-evoked synaptic plasticity in the nucleus accumbens. Cell Reports. 28(9):2256-2263.
- Scudder SL, Baimel C, Macdonald EE, Carter AG (2018). Hippocampal-evoked feedforward inhibition in the nucleus accumbens. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(42):9091-9104.
- Baimel C, Lau BK, Qiao M, Borgland SL (2017). Projection-target defined effects of orexin and dynorphin on VTA dopamine neurons. Cell Reports. 18(6):1346-1355.
- Baimel C, Borgland SL (2015). Orexin signaling in the VTA gates morphine-induced synaptic plasticity. Journal of Neuroscience. 35(18):7295-72303.