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I conduct research on how the brain works to generate reward, motivation, actions, and habits. My work incorporates techniques to record neural activity, modulate neuronal activity at sub-second timescales, study brain chemistry, and map brain connections. The research is relevant to understanding disorders of reward and action, like addiction, Parkinson’s disease, and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders.
Psychological and Brain Sciences
Graybiel AM, Smith KS (2014). How the brain makes and breaks habits. Scientific American, June issue (cover article). Link to site.
Smith KS, Graybiel AM (2014). Investigating habits: strategies, technologies, and models. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 8:39. Link to article.
Smith KS, Graybiel AM (2013). A dual operator view of habitual behavior reflecting cortical and striatal dynamics. Neuron, 79(2):361-74. (Link for video abstract)
Smith KS, Graybiel AM (2013). Using optogenetics to study habits. Brain Research, 1511:102-14.