Dr. Carr is a behavioral neuroscientist whose laboratory investigates brain reward mechanisms as they relate to ingestive behavior and drug abuse. He is Professor of Psychiatry and Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at the NYU School of Medicine, and a member of the Neuroscience Institute. There are currently three lines of research in his laboratory. One concerns neuroadaptations in the ventral striatum that develop in response to food restriction and account for increased incentive potency of psychostimulant drugs and associated cues. The second concerns the role of ventral striatal insulin in the reinforcement of flavor-nutrient learning, and the maladaptive consequences of diet-induced insulin receptor insensitivity. The third focuses on diet-induced ventral striatal expression of RAGE (receptor for advanced glycation end products) and its role in the development of anhedonia. Dr. Carr is past director of the medical school’s NIDA Postdoctoral Training Program in Drug Abuse Research and is currently a director of the Physician Scientist Research Program in Psychiatry (basic science track).
For more information about Professor Carr's research and publications visit his NYU Langone home page.