Shelly Flagel

Shelly B. Flagel is an American behavioral neuroscientist whose research focuses on the underlying brain mechanisms of reward and addiction. She is an associate professor of psychiatry in the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute at the University of Michigan.

Shelly B. Flagel
Alma materUniversity of Michigan
Known forNeurobiology of reward learning and vulnerability to addiction
Children2
Scientific career
FieldsNeurobiology
Institutions

Early life and education

Flagel was born and raised in Middletown, Ohio. She completed a bachelor of science with honors in biopsychology at University of Michigan (UM). Flagel did an undergraduate thesis project under her mentor Israel Liberzon. She earned a doctor of philosophy in neuroscience at UM. Her doctoral advisors were Delia M. Vazquez and Terry E. Robinson. She investigated the impact of early life stress on drug-taking behavior in adults. Flagel conducted postdoctoral research in Huda Akil's laboratory.[1][2]

Career and research

Following her postdoctoral research, Flagel started her lab in the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute at the University of Michigan in 2011 and is now an associate professor in the department of psychiatry in the Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience Institute at UM.[3] She investigates the individual differences in addiction and impulse control disorders, reward learning, and motivated behavior neurobiology.[2] Her work is discussed in the Encyclopedia of Psychopharmacology,[4] The Scientist Magazine,[5] Scientific American,[6] explaining addiction in layman terms,[7] and discussing if there are any inherent factors,[8] and the issues of how the brain operates control (willpower).[9][10][11]

Personal life

Flagel has two sons.[1]

References
  1. "The Flagel Lab". flagel.lab.medicine.umich.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
  2. "Shelly Flagel, Ph.D. | Psychiatry | Michigan Medicine | University of Michigan". medicine.umich.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
  3. "Shelly Flagel | UM Neuroscience Graduate Program". neuroscience.med.umich.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-18.
  4. Stolerman, Ian (31 July 2010). Encyclopedia of Psychopharmacology. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 1203. ISBN 978-3-540-68698-9.
  5. "Addictive Behavior Control Circuit Discovered in Rat Brains". The Scientist Magazine®. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  6. Miller, Maya. "Why It's So Hard to Junk Bad Decisions—Edging Closer to Understanding "Sunk Cost"". Scientific American. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  7. "Why these rats got hooked and stayed hooked on cocaine". Futurity. 2016-05-02. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  8. Kirkpatrick, Bailey (2016-05-03). "Epigenetic Mark Might Make Some People More Prone to Drug Addiction". What is Epigenetics?. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  9. Christensen, Jen. "How your brain works against your best intentions". CNN. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  10. Thompson, Susan Peirce (2017). Bright line eating : the science of living happy, thin, and free (1 ed.). Carlsbad, California. pp. 74–77. ISBN 978-1-4019-5253-2. OCLC 951227734.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  11. Domjan, Michael (2013). The Principles of Learning and Behavior. Tim Matray (7 ed.). Belmont, CA: Cengage. p. 70. ISBN 978-1-305-14267-1. OCLC 1005013541.
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