Dr. Yao-ying Ma
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Binghamton University
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Yao-Ying Ma is working as Assistant Professor of Psychology at Binghamton University. She has done M.D. from Shanxi Medical University and PhD in Neurobiologyfrom Peking University. Her primary research interest is on the glutamate receptor-mediated neuroplasticity in the striatum in mental disorders, including substance abuse and neurodegenerative disease.
Research Interest
Addiction Behavior, Cocaine, Neuroplasticity, Striatum, Medium-Sized Spiny Neurons, NMDA Receptors, AMPA Receptors.
Publications
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Lee BR, Ma YY, Huang YH, Wang X, Otaka M, Ishikawa M, Neumann PA, Graziane NM, Brown TE, Suska A, Guo C. Maturation of silent synapses in amygdala-accumbens projection contributes to incubation of cocaine craving. Nature neuroscience. 2013 Nov 1;16(11):1644-51.
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Ma YY, Lee BR, Wang X, Guo C, Liu L, Cui R, Lan Y, Balcita-Pedicino JJ, Wolf ME, Sesack SR, Shaham Y. Bidirectional modulation of incubation of cocaine craving by silent synapse-based remodeling of prefrontal cortex to accumbens projections. Neuron. 2014 Sep 17;83(6):1453-67.
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Ma YY, Wang X, Huang Y, Marie H, Nestler EJ, Schlüter OM, Dong Y. Re-silencing of silent synapses unmasks anti-relapse effects of environmental enrichment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2016 May 3;113(18):5089-94.
