Arul Thangavel, MD
Attending MSP Physician
Medicine
School of Medicine

Education & Training

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• Residency Internal Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2015
• Certificate in Biomedical Research Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2012
• M.D. Medicine University of California, San Francisco 2012
• B.A. Cognitive Neuroscience Brown University 2003

Publications (4)

Top publication keywords:
Nucleus AccumbensEvoked PotentialsPrefrontal CortexOrientationSpace PerceptionRewardVisual PerceptionFixation, OcularPsychomotor PerformanceVentral Tegmental AreaFingersMovementNeural PathwaysMemory, Short-TermBrain Mapping

• Saying no to drugs.
  Perspectives on medical education 2015 Thangavel A, Sharpe B
• Causal role of the prefrontal cortex in top-down modulation of visual processing and working memory.
  Nature neuroscience 2011 Zanto TP, Rubens MT, Thangavel A, Gazzaley A
• Gaze influences finger movement-related and visual-related activation across the human brain.
  Experimental brain research 2008 Bédard P, Thangavel A, Sanes JN
• Reward-motivated learning: mesolimbic activation precedes memory formation.
  Neuron 2006 Adcock RA, Thangavel A, Whitfield-Gabrieli S, Knutson B, Gabrieli JD