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Omar Ahmed, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
U-M Primary Appointment
Psychology
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ojahmed@umich.eduOmar Ahmed, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Psychology, Neuroscience & Biomedical Engineering. His research interests include psychedelic drug mechanisms, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and epilepsy.
Dr. Ahmed is the director of the The Ahmed lab which studies behavioral neural circuits and attempts to repair them when they go awry in specific disorders. The lab works with patients and with transgenic rodent models and focuses on how space, time and speed are encoded by the spatial navigation and memory circuits of the brain, and how this information is consolidated during sleep. The lab also focuses on how these same cells and circuits go wrong in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and epilepsy, with the goal of identifying novel targets for therapies.
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