Charles R Gerfen
Chief
Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience
National Institute of Mental Health NCNP
Japan
Biography
Dr. Gerfen received a B.A. from Amherst College and Ph.D. from Northwestern University. His doctoral research was on neural substrates of reward involving the prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia. During a post-doctoral fellowship in the Laboratory of Max Cowan at the Salk Institute, he developed the PHA-L axonal tracing technique with Paul Sawchenko. In 1983, Dr. Gerfen was recruited by Ed Evarts to the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at NIMH to work on the neuroanatomy of the forebrain, where he established some of the functional principles of the organization of the basal ganglia. Dr. Gerfen is currently the Chief of the Laboratory of Systems Neuroscience at the NIMH.
Research Interest
functional organization of the cerebral cortex and basal ganglia
