Vinay Parikh, Ph.D.

E-mail: vinay.parikh@temple.edu

Phone: (215) 204-1572

Interests: Neurochemical substrates of cognition, regulation of synaptic transmission and information processing during neurodevelopmental transformations and aging, neurobiology of cognitive deficits of neuropsychiatric disorders (Schizophrenia, ADHD, Addiction) and age-related dementias

Vinay Parikh, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and a member of the Neuroscience Program at Temple University. Dr. Parikh obtained his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Punjabi University in 1999. After working as a Scientist in Discovery Research at Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. for two years, he joined the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine as a postdoctoral fellow to obtain training in Neurochemistry and Neuropsychopharmacology. He integrated perspectives of systems and behavioral/cognitive neuroscience into his research by acquiring further postdoctoral training in Psychobiology and Neuroscience from Ohio State University and the University of Michigan. Prior to joining Temple, Dr. Parikh held the position of Assistant Research Scientist in the Department of Psychology (Biopsychology and Neuroscience Program) at the University of Michigan.

Dr. Parikh’s research interests broadly concern mechanisms by which neurochemical substrates regulate information processing in brain circuits regulating cognitive operations, and more specifically, how these processes are influenced during developmental transitions and aging. He employs diverse and multi-disciplinary research approaches to understand how neurochemical signaling systems encode distinct cognitive operations and orchestrate information in neural networks necessary for higher cognitive functions including learning, attention, working memory and decision-making. As cognitive impairments represent an important attribute of major neuropsychiatric and age-related neurodegenerative disorders, Dr. Parikh is keenly interested in the delineation of the neurobiological mechanisms that disrupt information processing and give rise to the cognitive symptoms associated with these disorders. A major focus of his research involves elucidation of the role of trophic factor signaling in the regulation of synaptic transmission and cognitive information processing during the normative neurodevelopment, aging, and under pathological conditions.

Dr. Parikh’s current research is funded by the National Institute on Aging and National Institute of Mental Health. He is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, International Behavioral Neuroscience Society, American Society for Neurochemistry and Collegium Internationale Neuropsychopharmacologicum (CINP).  He serves as a reviewer for many neuroscience and psychiatry journals and has received many prestigious awards including the Young Investigator Award from International Congress of Schizophrenia Research (2003), the Rafaelson Young Investigator Award from CINP (2006) and Research Faculty Recognition Award from the University of Michigan (2008).