Paul E. M. Phillips, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Department of Pharmacology
Graduate Program in Neurobiology & Behavior
Graduate Program in Molecular & Cellular Biology
Center for Drug Addiction Research
pemp@uw.edu
Paul graduated in Physiology from the University of Liverpool in 1993. He then joined the Neurotransmission Research Group in the Academic Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry (University of London) where he completed his PhD in Neuroscience under the supervision of Jon Stamford. In 1999 he moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to take up a postdoctoral position with Mark Wightman in the Department of Chemistry. In 2003 he was appointed to Research Assistant Professor in Psychology at UNC and then joined the faculty at the University of Washington in 2004.
Selected publications
- Excessive cocaine use results from decreased phasic dopamine signaling in the striatum
Willuhn I, Burgeno LM, Groblewski PA and Phillips PEM
Nature Neuroscience 17, 704-709 (2014)
- Severe stress switches CRF action in the nucleus accumbens from appetitive to aversive
Lemos JC, Wanat MJ, Smith JS, Reyes BAS, Hollon NG, Van Bockstaele EJ, Chavkin C and Phillips PEM
Nature 490, 402-406 (2012)
- Pavlovian valuation systems in learning and decision making
Clark JJ, Hollon NG and Phillips PEM
Current Opinion in Neurobiology, in press
- A selective role for dopamine in stimulus-reward learning
Flagel SB*, Clark JJ*, Robinson TE, Mayo L, Czuj A, Willuhn I, Akers CA, Clinton SM, Phillips PEM† and Akil H†
Nature 469, 53-57 (2011)
- Chronic microsensors for longitudinal subsecond dopamine detection in behaving animals
Clark JJ*, Sandberg SG*, Wanat MJ, Gan JO, Horne EA, Hart AS, Parker JG, Akers CA, Willuhn I, Martinez V, Evans SB, Stella N and Phillips PEM
Nature Methods 7, 126-129 (2010)
- Dissociable cost and benefit encoding of future rewards by mesolimbic dopamine
Gan JO*, Walton ME* and Phillips PEM
Nature Neuroscience 13, 25-27 (2010)
- Subsecond dopamine release promotes cocaine seeking
Phillips PEM, Stuber GD, Heien MLAV, Wightman RM and Carelli RM
Nature 422, 614-618 (2003)
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