Alberto Del Arco, PhD, is a Behavioral Neuroscientist and an Associate Professor in the School of Applied Sciences. Dr. Del Arco is also a Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and the Graduate Program in Neuroscience in the School of Medicine.
Research Interests
- Neuronal Circuits: In vivo multi-unit recordings in the brain of behaving animals, neuronal data analysis and models.
- Reward and Motivation: Reward seeking and value-based decision-making behavior, cue-evoked neuronal activity and behavior, social stress and choice impulsivity.
- Psychiatric Disorders: Preclinical models, stress-induced vulnerability, psychedelics, neurofunctional biomarkers.
- Translational Research: Neural recordings in human subjects (i.e., EEG), decision-making behavior, perception of control and anxiety.
Biography
Alberto Del Arco is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health, Exercise Science and Sports Management in the School of Applied Sciences and a Scientist/Educator in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior in the School of Medicine at the University of Mississippi. He received his PhD in Neuroscience from the University Complutense of Madrid, Spain, working on in vivo brain neurochemistry. After a postdoctoral period at the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden), he worked as a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh, where he gained experience recording neuronal activity in the brain of behaving animals and performing neuronal data analysis. He has published over 55 papers, his h-index is 37 and he has more than 6,000 citations to his published work. His laboratory works to identify how and when changes in brain function translate into mal-adaptive behavior and, ultimately, the development of psychiatric disorders.
Education
Ph.D. Biology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2003)