Dr. Marvin R. Diaz

Assistant Professor
Department of Integrative Neurosciences
Binghamton University
United States of America

Academician Neurology
Biography

Dr. Marvin R. Diaz is working as Assistant Professor of Psychology at Binghamton University. He has done BS from University at North Carolina at Wilmington, NC and PhD from Wake Forest University Health Sciences, Winston-Salem, NC, USA. His field of interest is Behavioral Neuroscience and he is an active Member of Research Society on Alcoholism, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Study Group, and International Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism.

Research Intrest

Fetal alcohol, alcoholism, synaptic transmission, emotional processing, anxiety.

List of Publications
Diaz MR, Morton RA. Ethanol Untangles the Amygdala‐Anxiety Circuit Through Tonic GABA Inhibition. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. 2014 Mar 1;38(3):619-23.
Diaz MR, Vollmer CC, Zamudio-Bulcock PA, Vollmer W, Blomquist SL, Morton RA, Everett JC, Zurek AA, Yu J, Orser BA, Valenzuela CF. Repeated intermittent alcohol exposure during the third trimester-equivalent increases expression of the GABA A receptor δ subunit in cerebellar granule neurons and delays motor development in rats. Neuropharmacology. 2014 Apr 30;79:262-74.
Diaz MR, Jotty K, Locke JL, Jones SR, Valenzuela CF. Moderate alcohol exposure during the rat equivalent to the third trimester of human pregnancy alters regulation of GABAA receptor-mediated synaptic transmission by dopamine in the basolateral amygdala. Frontiers in pediatrics. 2014;2.