Steven Grieco, PhD

Assistant Director of CNCM

I am a neuroscientist in the laboratory of Dr. Xiangmin Xu at the University of California, Irvine. Though I have broad interests in the neurosciences, I am currently studying the mechanisms regulating cortical plasticity in the brain induced by psychoplastogens (ketamine, psilocybin) or other ordeals (fasting, sleep deprivation, exercise). In particular I am testing how the fasting spiking neuron type in the brain (PV+ interneuron) regulates plasticity. Methodologically, I currently employ 2-photon imaging, new rabies tracing, spatial transcriptomics, and machine learning-based behavioral analysis