Shelly Flagel
Research Professor
Michigan Neuroscience Institute
Professor of Psychiatry
Associate Director Academic Program
Neuroscience Graduate Program
Adjunct Professor of Psychology
College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Psychiatry
205 Zina Pitcher Place
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
[email protected]

Available to mentor
Shelly Flagel
Research Professor
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    • About

    I am a behavioral neuroscientist interested in the neural mechanisms that underlie maladaptive and psychopathological behaviors.

    Links
    • http://www.flagellab.com/
    Qualifications
    • Postdoctoral Research Fellow
      Molecular & Behavioral Neuroscience Institute, Psychiatry, 2007
    Center Memberships
    • Center Member
      Eisenberg Family Depression Center
    • Center Member
      Caswell Diabetes Institute
    Research Overview

    neuropsychopharmacology, addiction, impulse control disorders, animal models of psychiatric conditions, neural circuits, behavioral neuroscience, motivated behavior, reward learning

    Recent Publications See All Publications
    • Journal Article
      The effect of corticosterone on the acquisition of Pavlovian conditioned approach behavior in rats is dependent on sex and vendor.
      Turfe A, Westbrook SR, Lopez SA, Chang SE, Flagel SB. Horm Behav, 2024 Aug; 164: 105609 DOI:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2024.105609
      PMID: 39083878
    • Preprint
      Genomic Loci Influencing Cue-Reactivity in Heterogeneous Stock Rats.
      King CP, Chitre AS, Leal-Gutiérrez JD, Tripi JA, Hughson AR, Horvath AP, Lamparelli AC, George A, Martin C, Pierre CLS, Sanches T, Bimschleger HV, Gao J, Cheng R, Nguyen K-M, Holl KL, Polesskaya O, Ishiwari K, Chen H, Woods LCS, Palmer AA, Robinson TE, Flagel SB, Meyer PJ. 2024 Apr 3; DOI:10.1101/2024.03.13.584852
      PMID: 38559127
    • Preprint
      The effect of corticosterone on the acquisition of Pavlovian conditioned approach behavior is dependent on sex and vendor.
      Turfe A, Westbrook SR, Lopez SA, Chang SE, Flagel SB. 2024 Mar 20; DOI:10.1101/2024.03.20.586009
      PMID: 38562896
    • Journal Article
      Leveraging individual differences in cue-reward learning to investigate the psychological and neural basis of shared psychiatric symptomatology: The sign-tracker/goal-tracker model.
      Felix PC, Flagel SB. Behav Neurosci, 2024 May 16; DOI:10.1037/bne0000590
      PMID: 38753398
    • Journal Article
      The propensity to sign-track is associated with externalizing behavior and distinct patterns of reward-related brain activation in youth.
      Colaizzi JM, Flagel SB, Gearhardt AN, Borowitz MA, Kuplicki R, Zotev V, Clark G, Coronado J, Abbott T, Paulus MP. Sci Rep, 2023 Mar 16; 13 (1): 4402 DOI:10.1038/s41598-023-30906-3
      PMID: 36928057
    • Journal Article
      Inhibition of Dopamine Neurons Prevents Incentive Value Encoding of a Reward Cue: With Revelations from Deep Phenotyping.
      Iglesias AG, Chiu AS, Wong J, Campus P, Li F, Liu ZN, Bhatti JK, Patel SA, Deisseroth K, Akil H, Burgess CR, Flagel SB. J Neurosci, 2023 Nov 1; 43 (44): 7376 - 7392. DOI:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0848-23.2023
      PMID: 37709540
    • Journal Article
      Genome-wide association studies of human and rat BMI converge on synapse, epigenome, and hormone signaling networks.
      Wright SN, Leger BS, Rosenthal SB, Liu SN, Jia T, Chitre AS, Polesskaya O, Holl K, Gao J, Cheng R, Garcia Martinez A, George A, Gileta AF, Han W, Netzley AH, King CP, Lamparelli A, Martin C, St Pierre CL, Wang T, Bimschleger H, Richards J, Ishiwari K, Chen H, Flagel SB, Meyer P, Robinson TE, Solberg Woods LC, Kreisberg JF, Ideker T, Palmer AA. Cell Rep, 2023 Aug 29; 42 (8): 112873 DOI:10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112873
      PMID: 37527041
    • Journal Article
      An exponential increase in QTL detection with an increased sample size.
      Chitre AS, Polesskaya O, Munro D, Cheng R, Mohammadi P, Holl K, Gao J, Bimschleger H, Martinez AG, George AM, Gileta AF, Han W, Horvath A, Hughson A, Ishiwari K, King CP, Lamparelli A, Versaggi CL, Martin CD, St Pierre CL, Tripi JA, Richards JB, Wang T, Chen H, Flagel SB, Meyer P, Robinson TE, Solberg Woods LC, Palmer AA. Genetics, 2023 May 26; 224 (2): DOI:10.1093/genetics/iyad054
      PMID: 36974931