The Levin Lab
Neurobehavioral Research LaboratoryAbous US
The Principal Investigators
Dr. Ed Levin
Neurobehavioral Research Laboratory
Department of Psychiatry, Box #3412 Chapel Hill, NC 27514
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC 27710
Phone: 919-681-6273
Fax: 919-681-3416
E-Mail: edlevin@duke.edu
Curriculum Vitae
Dr. Amir Rezvani
Curriculum VitaeDept. of Psychiatry
Box 3412
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC 27710
e-mail: Azadi@duke.edu
(919) 668 – 1880
Dr. Ed Levin's laboratory is a psychopharmacological facility of Duke University Medical Center in the department of Biological Psychiatry.
The laboratory conducts pharmacological research focusing on the advantages of nicotine in the central nervous system to learning in animal models of Alzheimer's Dementia and Schizophrenia.
Dr. Amir Rezvani is currently continuing his EtOH research evaluating atypical GABA antagonists. The lab is funded by federal and non-federal grants including grantors such as The National Institute of Mental Health.
Dr. Levin continues to persue his interest in toxicology and teratology related to organophosphate pesticides by conducting Chlorpyrifos research with Zebrafish and Sprague Dawley rats. The laboratory consistantly sponsers undergraduate researchers from Duke University and abroad.
The laboratory is equiped with several 8-arm-radial mazes, including an automated maze; a 16-arm-radial maze; operant chambers for rats and mice; auditory startle response chambers for pre-pulse inhibition studies; a state of the art cryostat for slicing samples; and an operation room with a stereotaxic device for placing microcanulae.