Vinay Parikh, Ph.D.

E.mail: vinay.parikh@temple.edu
Work: 215.204.1572
Lab: 215.204.2611

Research Interests: Neurochemistry of attention and executive functions; cognitive aging and Alzheimer’s disease, executive dysfunction in schizophrenia and addiction.

Vinay Parikh, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Psychology and a member of the Neuroscience Program at Temple University. Dr. Parikh’s research interests broadly concern mechanisms by which neurochemical substrates regulate information processing in brain circuits subserving cognitive operations. 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 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. Current projects in Dr. Parikh’s lab focus on 1) trophic regulation of forebrain cholinergic transmission and attentional processing during normal and pathological aging, 2) role of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) signaling in learning and cognitive flexibility, and 3) glutamatergic regulation of cognitive information processing in cortico-striatal circuits and the impact of psychotropic drugs.