Matthew Lowrie

Matt is a predoc with the NIH-Karolinska Graduate Partnership Program (GPP). He was previously a postbac in SBN from 2022-2024 after graduating from William & Mary with a B.Sc. (Honors) in Psychological Sciences. During his postbac, Matt studied the complex behavior, neural dynamics, and anatomy of decision making and the principle of loss aversion. For his graduate studies Matt has partnered SBN with the Meletis lab at the Karolinska Institute (KI). His project focuses on the Islands of Calleja and their role in disordered inhibitory control. As part of the KI-NIH program, Matt splits his time between Stockholm and NIH. In his free time Matt is an award-winning photographer, an avid cook, and enjoys the outdoors.

Publications

Noradrenergic modulation of stress induced catecholamine release: Opposing influence of FG7142 and yohimbine. Vladimir Visocky, Carleigh J. Turner, Matthew H Lowrie, Anthony Alibro, Fany Messanvi, Yogita Chudasama bioRxiv 2024.05.09.593389; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.09.593389 

Presentations

Lowrie, M.H., Matrov, D., Christopher, K. Chudasama, Y. (2024) The Islands of Calleja: Connectivity Composition and Function [Poster]. NIMH Training Day 2024, Washington, D.C., USA.

Lowrie, M.H., Bradley, S.P., Christopher, K., Chudasama, Y. (2024). Cholinergic contributions to vigilance in rats [Poster]. NIH Postbac Poster Day, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Lowrie, M. H., Visockis, V., Bradley, S. P., & Chudasama, Y. (2023). Rats risk more when dealing with decisions framed as losses: The reflection effect [Poster]. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. #235, Washington, D.C.

Visocky, V., Turner, C.J., Lowrie, M. H., Messanvi, F., Chudasama, Y. (2023). Apomorphine effect on decision making in rats [Poster]. Catecholamines Gordon Research Conference, Castelldefels, Spain.

Lowrie, M. H., Visockis, V., & Chudasama, Y. (2023,). The reflection effect in rats using a novel decision-making task [Poster]. NIH Postbac Poster Day, Bethesda, MD, USA.