Anu Madhavan, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Medicine
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• MD Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
• Internal Medicine Internship & Residency SCVMC
• PhD SUNY at Buffalo
• Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Stanford University School of Medicine
• Postdoctoral Fellowship UCSF

Publications (4)

Top publication keywords:
Ventral Tegmental AreaSynaptic TransmissionSubstance Withdrawal SyndromeCocaineMorphine DependenceReceptors, Opioid, muExcitatory Postsynaptic PotentialsAnalgesics, OpioidRewardReceptors, N-Methyl-D-AspartateThionucleotidesMorphineReceptors, Dopamine D2gamma-Aminobutyric AcidReceptors, AMPA

• Loss of D2 dopamine receptor function modulates cocaine-induced glutamatergic synaptic potentiation in the ventral tegmental area.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2013 Madhavan A, Argilli E, Bonci A, Whistler JL
• Chronic ethanol potentiates the effect of neuropeptide s in the basolateral amygdala and shows increased anxiolytic and anti-depressive effects.
  Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2012 Enquist J, Ferwerda M, Madhavan A, Hok D, Whistler JL
• Opioid-Induced GABA potentiation after chronic morphine attenuates the rewarding effects of opioids in the ventral tegmental area.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010 Madhavan A, Bonci A, Whistler JL
• micro-Opioid receptor endocytosis prevents adaptations in ventral tegmental area GABA transmission induced during naloxone-precipitated morphine withdrawal.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010 Madhavan A, He L, Stuber GD, Bonci A, Whistler JL